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{{a|book review|[[File:Cynical Theories.jpg|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{br|Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race Gender and Identity}} — {{author|Helen Pluckrose}} and {{author|James Lindsay}} <br>

 

A brave book in our polarised times, in {{br|Cynical Theories}}, {{author|Helen Pluckrose}} and {{author|James Lindsay}} take on the intellectual foundations of the current strain of militant leftist “critical” thought. Brave because the received wisdom piped into our liberal echo chambers declares that the intolerant ''right'' is the problem. Brave, because of the repercussions — mass shaming, mob rule cancellation, livelihood ruination — that sometimes rains down on those who transgress its principles, even inadvertently. It’s somewhat bracing even writing a favourable book review.