Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity — And Why This Harms Everybody by James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity — And Why This Harms Everybody

James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that o...

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