Helen Pluckrose
Editor @AreoMagazine
Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Foodmasher. Grievance studies. Cynical Theories.
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Evolutionary Psychology: Predictively Powerful or Riddled with Just-So Stories? - Areo
This essay is part of a series on the value of evolutionary approaches to psychology. Part 1 clears away seven key misconceptions. Part 2 shows why evolution is necessary for…View Post
Are You Who You Pretend To Be? The Social Media Masquerade. - Areo
Do you know the difference between you and your online persona? Do you believe you are who you pretend to be? You probably know that you’re not quite as filtered…View Post
How to Be Not-Racist
We are now offering this essay as a guide to explain to readers how they can, in fact, be not-racist, which we also argue they should want to be and should be expected to be.
How Cancel Culture captured campus - UnHerd
The philosophical origins of the Woke ideology are analysed in two new books
Biden Is Not The Room
James Lindsay recently said on Twitter that he will vote "unhappily" for Republicans including Trump in these troubled times after seeing an argument that the left should work to abolish the Constitution.
Helen Pluckrose
@ConceptualJames And I disagree with this one, but you should hear it.
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How Trump is radicalizing the left
Trump is not the nemesis of 'woke' zealotry. He's its best booster.
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"I'm afraid I have to get quite assertive about tea because you Americans are just not doing it right."
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Helen Pluckrose
Cynical Theories is now available on Audible! UK people: audible.co.uk/pd/B08LDWG3G8?… US people: audible.com/pd/B08LDTDMZK/…
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Cynical Theories
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly best seller! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook...
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Helen Pluckrose
Cynical Theories is now available on Audible! UK people: audible.co.uk/pd/B08LDWG3G8?… US people: audible.com/pd/B08LDTDMZK/…
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How to Be a Non-Racist
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Helen Pluckrose
Nice manifesto from Gerfried! Being non-racist is entirely possible. Jim and I have a loooooooong essay on precisely this forthcoming.
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My objection to critical race theory
Here is a concise explanation of why object to Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, and so on. Following Lindsay and Pluckrose, I will use the shorthand "Theory" to describe these ideas or mind...
A few more thoughts on Cynical Theories
Following up on this post. 1. Various academics are rushing to judge PL harshly because they "get ____ wrong," where ____ is some set of philosophers. Yet I would say that as a model to explain and...
Liberalism vs. Theory
I am reading Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories. I would describe it as a solid critique of the social justice movement and a stalwart defense of liberalism. An excerpt: Liberalism...
Where Have the Honest Liberals Gone?
‘Critical race theory’ is a dangerous folly, but these days only conservatives are willing to criticize it.
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