How
Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why
This Harms Everybody
Books
Cynical Theories
Helen Pluckrose
First published:
September 10, 2020
Category:
Non-fiction
Reviews for Cynical Theories
Book of the Year – The Times
Book of the Year – Sunday Times
Book of the Year – Financial Times
‘Brilliant‘ – Daily Telegraph
‘Exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture’ – Steven Pinker
‘If you want to know the philosophy behind cancel culture and why it is so creepy, get this book. Then, give it to your friends and family‘ – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Author
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.
