People are losing patience with radical theory’s takeover of public discourse – Telegraph.co.uk

We are living in anti-intellectual times, writes the American feminist thinker Judith Butler in an email interview with the New Statesman magazine published this week. That is certainly one perspective on the Trump phenomenon.
Another, from outside the Ivory Tower, is that we are actually trapped in a culture war spawned on university campuses, where words like decolonise have long been applied to hearts and minds, rather than territories, and where the issue of gendered lavatory signage is of …

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