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John Anderson Direct: With Dr. James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose

John Anderson: Conversations

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Critical Theory and the Enlightenment

Critical theory is a broad category of thought, which would include the Frank Ferts' School's capital C and T critical theory. It tends to believe that society is organized into systems of power and dominance. In practice, it means reading more or less every social phenomenon in the most cynical light possible. So I think that on the cover, we put critical theories and crossed out critical for the word cynical.

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