Social Justice Groupthink

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody is one of the most important and enlightening books I have read in years.[1] It is a joint effort of Helen Pluckrose, a British political and cultural writer now in exile from the academy, and James Lindsay, an American author and mathematician. I say enlightening because to me every page contained an AHA! moment. Now for the first time I can gauge the extent of my cluelessness and naiveté over the last 30 years or more as I maneuvered the academic world and raised children who maneuvered it in their turn.