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

Helen Pluckrose

James Lindsay

• Cynical Theories has sold over 20,000 copies for Swift Press and over 100,000 copies in the US

• The first book to explain the intellectual roots of the new ideology – one based around group rather than individual identity, and the apparent power relations between those groups – that seems to be sweeping the Western world

• For anyone who wants to understand ‘cancel culture’ or other manifestations of the new ideology

• The authors are two of the participants in the ‘Grievance Studies Probe’, which exposed the intellectual fraudulence of a number of contemporary academic journals, and which made news the world over

Helen Pluckrose

Helen Pluckrose is a liberal political and cultural writer and speaker. She is the editor of Areo Magazine and the author of many popular essays on postmodernism, critical theory, liberalism, secularism, and feminism. A participant in the Grievance Studies Affair probe, which highlighted problems in social justice scholarship, she is today an exile from the humanities, where she researched late medieval and early modern religious writing by and for women. She lives in England and can be found on Twitter @HPluckrose.

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

Helen Pluckrose

James Lindsay

Helen Pluckrose

James Lindsay

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