Deconstructing Liberal Intellectuals: Peterson, Harris, and Pinker
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Pinker, Peterson, Harris, and All of These Thinkers Are Torch Carriers for the Enlightenment
There's a sort of irony that they all think of themselves as torch carriers for the enlightenment. But what people like pinker and peterson and harris all do is they actually use ence and logic to maintain the hierarchies of to day. The new brain sciences are often a political rhetoric disguised as natural facts, he says. And this naturalization of social construction serves to rationalize the neo liberal political and social status quo.
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