"This book is based on Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, first published by Pitchstone Publishing in 2020"--Verso

Postmodernism: Questioning Knowledge and Power -- Postmodernism's Applied Turn: Making Oppression Real -- Postcolonial Theory: Deconstructing the West to Save the Other -- Queer Theory: Freeing Gender and Sexuality from the Normal -- Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality: Ending Racism by Seeing It Everywhere, Always -- Feminisms and Gender Studies: Performing and Problematizing -- Disability and Fat Studies: Replacing Science with Wishful Thinking -- Critical Social Justice Scholarship and Thought: Making Theory True -- Critical Social Justice in Action: Practicing What Theory Preaches -- Liberalism as an Alternative to Critical Social Justice: Encouraging Discussion and Debate

"Argues that many popular approaches to questions of social justice are illiberal and offers an alternative vision for social justice based on liberal principles, adapted from the Wall Street Journal bestseller Cynical Theories."--

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