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"Cynical Theories" by Pluckrose and Lindsay. An Abbreviated Review

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  Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody . Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay Pitchstonebooks.com ISBN: 9781634312028; $27.95; August 2020 It was refreshing to watch! The Enlightenment sparring with Postmodernism! Classic Liberalism taking on Social Justice Theory! Secularism scrapping it up with Critical Theory Authoritarianism! And what a match it was. Essayist, James Lindsay, and writer, Helen Pluckrose, who were leading lights in the 2018 grievance studies affair probe, pulled together long hours and research and presented them to the reading public recently in their 352-page hardback, “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity – and Why This Harms Everybody.” This well documented tome is written with an even hand that gives judicious thinkers truck loads of material for perceiving the modern moment and helping to fathom what has happened and is happe

"Holding Our Breath" by Stephen D. Bostrom. A Review

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  This 116-page softback contains a series of ocular and odic musings on the coming of Christ. Stephen D. Bostrom, State Minister for the Presbyterian Church in America's Ministry to State, in Helena Montana, has crafted a short devotional manual for the Advent season. He is teamed up with by his son, the photographer Noah Bostrom, whose images grace each meditation. It is a simple read, ideal for the contemplative soul. The format is straightforward. Each chapter contains a unique photograph. It is then charmed by a poem, or hymn, or carol penned by various writers from centuries ago, or just last year - many of whom you've likely never come across. Most of the time Bostrom gives some historical and personal details about the writers, and then follows through with various considerations about phrases, words, or lines. Each reflection is roughly two to three pages long and able to be read within five minutes. "Holding Our Breath" is not an academic theology, but it is