Cynical Theories: Difference between revisions

But suddenly going all fascist on everything is neither necessary nor productive. {{Author|Helen Pluckrose}} and {{Author|James Lindsay}} are not the first to set all this out, of course — {{author|Douglas Murray}}’s magnificently scathing {{br|The Madness of Crowds}} ploughed the same furrow, but unlike Murray, Pluckrose and Lindsay hail from the left, so are harder for Theorists to dismiss out of hand. And where Murray hurls (well-aimed) thunderbolts, {{br|Critical Theories}} ''examines'' the various strains of Theory in measured, careful tones. Its dismemberment is all the more effective for it.