Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

And while this is highly questionable as social theory, it is a shrewd posture, because if the problem is a lack of linkages, those who are good at making these kinds of linkages are elevated as solvers. Those who propose to solve problems in other ways—especially by looking at power and resources and other things unsettling to winners—are sideline

The historical reality is that social systems that invest some people with power over the lives of other people result in the destruction of people. Ed Stetzer recently observed that “the Venn diagram of reformed, complementarian, and misogynist has a pretty significant overlap.”13 This sounds like what Gerda Lerner described in 1986—only her Venn

CRT, again, has three legs: Collective grievance. Subjective historiography. And racial essentialism. The glue that holds it together is the postmodernist rejection of rationality as an arbiter of truth.

The role of agents and their subjectivity (i.e., the so-called “interior” world of beliefs, emotions, identities, perceptions, etc.) in consciously shaping physical and social worlds has long been a source of tension between realists and idealists. Very generally, realists maintain that there is a world out there that is separate and distinct from