What is postmodernism? Does the Biden Administration support Critical Race Theory? How might a recommitment to classical liberal principles help fight “Woke-ism”? James Lindsay joins the show to answer these questions and more and discuss his book (co-written with Helen Pluckrose), “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody.”

Cynical Theories: https://cynicaltheories.com/

Grievance Studies Affair: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/

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