James Lindsay

In our current political climate, it often seems impossible to have a civil conversation with someone who holds a different opinion. Dialogue is frequently shut down when perspectives clash, and heated debates on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter usually lead to shaming, hindering any possibility of productive discourse. In How to Have Impossible Conversations, coauthors Peter Boghossian and...

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western...

Everybody Is Wrong About God by James Lindsay is a call to action to address people's psychological and social motives for a belief in God, rather than engage in debates about the existence of God. With every argument for theism long since discredited, atheism has become little more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious...

This is a book about ideas. Specifically, this is a book about the evolution of a certain set of ideas, and how these ideas have come to dominate every important discussion about race, gender, and identity today. Have you heard someone refer to language as literal violence, or say that science is sexist? Or declare that being obese is healthy,...