The way of the intellectual dark web: what Joe Rogan and his associates can teach us about political dialogue

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I An overview of the IDW -- Chapter 1 Who was the IDW? -- 1.1 IDW patient zero -- 1.2 The core of the IDW and the IDW patronage system -- 1.3 Other members of the IDW -- Notes -- Chapter 2 What was the IDW? Good faith discussion as a path to truth -- 2.1 Good faith discussion as a path to truth -- 2.2 Loving truth and all knowledge -- 2.3 Corruption -- Notes -- Chapter 3 What was the IDW? Against Political Correctness or Wokeness or the illiberal or regressive left -- Notes -- Chapter 4 What was the IDW? The Enlightenment versus Postmodernism -- 4.1 The Enlightenment approach to truth -- 4.2 The Postmodern approach to truth -- 4.3 Further IDW objections to Postmodernism and its heirs -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The politics of the IDW -- 5.1 The orthodox left thinks that the IDW is from the right -- 5.2 The centre-left within the IDW -- 5.3 The centre within the IDW -- 5.4 The right within the IDW -- 5.5 Populism within the IDW -- 5.6 The left and right of politics ain't what they used to be -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The beginnings and possible ends of the IDW -- 6.1 The several origins of the IDW -- 6.2 IDW origin events -- 6.3 The end of the IDW? -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Interlude: Challenges in evaluating others and ourselves -- 7.1 The slip from truth to corrupt power -- 7.2 Problems with proportion -- 7.3 The Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy -- 7.4 Dunbar's number -- Notes -- Part II The IDW in more detail -- Chapter 8 Cyberspace versus the failing institutions, and the issue of free speech -- 8.1 A declaration of the independence of cyberspace -- 8.2 The consequences for institutions of the failed promise of growth - or Eric Weinstein's thesis -- 8.3 More flaws in the university -- 8.4 The flaws in the media.