Cynical Theories - Que Sera Sera

Cynical Theories is now available for preorder .

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay have been working on Cynical Theories since completing the hoax project and it's the culmination of many years of research. I collaborated with them on it while mapping out the complicated ideological landscape myself.

If you're interested in a deep dive into some of the intellectual history behind the "Woke" cultural revolution then order a copy and help us make this thing a bestseller.

In Cynical Theories, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay look at how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity, and why this harms everybody.

Helen and James document the evolution of the dogma behind these ideas, from its origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognisable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media pile-ons, as by its assertions, which are all too often taken as read: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous. As they warn, the unchecked proliferation of these beliefs present a threat to liberal democracy.