Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxis.

The Texas Show.

I'm Eric Metaxis, and I'm in Tampa.

I don't know how this happened.

I don't even have time to look into it. I'm just here and I'm doing my show. And the beauty of being, I'm at a Turning Point USA convention is you get to bump into people that normally you wouldn't bump into. For example, today, right now, I'm going to speak with James Lindsay. Who's James Lindsay, you say? I don't have an easy answer for you. All I can tell

you is that, well, two things. He has a new book called Cynical Theory, How Activist Scholarship

made everything about race, gender, and identity

and why this harms everybody.

He's co-written the book with Helen Pluck Rose.

First, James, let me at least say, welcome to the program.

Thanks for having me.

You came to my attention.

I want my audience to get this this because this is so delicious so

wonderful that i just i said to earlier my head exploded to use the cliche uh du jour i heard

that some academics who were sane people maybe conservatives don't know, had decided to scam the world of, what do you even call that world?

You know, critical theory, the academic nut house, the academic booby hatch where everything is about, you know, the patriarchy and Marxism and feminism.

And just the looniness of that world that you and some others had written papers

and submitted them to academic journals and that you were, I mean, this was obviously

stuff that you made up for the fun of it. And you submitted

them and they were accepted and published. When I heard that, I just could not believe how

wonderful this was. And I said, someday, I got to meet this guy. So I'm thrilled to meet you today.

Tell my audience the provenance of that exercise and where you were at that point in life.

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