Critical Theory

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• 8/29/2021
  

  Critical Theory Opposes the Right Wing's Cancel Politics

  by Leah Allen and Pipa Marguerite

  Before Critical Race Theory, the Frankfurt School of social criticism was a preferred target of the right. Ironically, it is the right that has been most agressively and systematically moving to "cancel" ideas it opposes, and the Frankfurt School that shows how to resist. 

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• 5/23/2021
  

  Theorizing Politics as Endless Struggle: Bernard Harcourt's "Critique and Praxis"

  by Eric Laursen

  Bernard Harcourt attempts to rescue critical theory from the grasp of utopians and academics by refocusing on the need to connect critique of society with action to change it, through recognition that there is no end point of politics. 

• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/21/2021
  

  Emmanuel Macron’s Socially Constructed Bogeymen

  by Daniel W. Drezner

  What, exactly, "Islamo-leftism" is, and what relationship it could possibly have to American academic theories, are two big questions left unanswered by the French President's attacks on academic ideas.