"What we have long needed is an intelligible, intelligent description of this theory [Sullivan is referring to 'an esoteric, academic discipline called critical theory'] which most people can…
"What we have long needed is an intelligible, intelligent description of this theory [Sullivan is referring to 'an esoteric, academic discipline called critical theory'] which most people can grasp. And we’ve just gotten one: “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity,” by former math prof James Lindsay and British academic, Helen Pluckrose. It’s as deep a dive into this often impenetrable philosophy as anyone would want to attempt. But it’s well worth grappling with."
The great Andrew Sullivan describes the process by which Woke took over universities and our very standards:
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-roots-of-wokeness
Sullivan states:
"What we have long needed is an intelligible, intelligent description of this theory [Sullivan is referring to 'an esoteric, academic discipline called critical theory'] which most people can grasp. And we’ve just gotten one: “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity,” by former math prof James Lindsay and British academic, Helen Pluckrose. It’s as deep a dive into this often impenetrable philosophy as anyone would want to attempt. But it’s well worth grappling with."