Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay trace how postmodern ideas from the 1960s evolved into today's academic theories about race, gender and identity. The authors explain the development of postcolonial theory, queer theory, critical race theory, gender studies, disability studies and fat studies, and how these ideas moved from universities into activism and public life. They argue that this approach undermines liberal values such as reason and universalism, and they propose a liberal alternative…

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Tom Bilyeu: “His book Cynical Theories is fantastic.”