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Cynical Theories

Hardcover • 2020 • English

Cynical Theories: How universities made everything about race, gender, and identity

By Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay

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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly ...Show more

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9781800750043

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Cynical Theories

Format

Hardcover

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