Is The Devil's Pleasure Palace (2015) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 7 / 100 (very CHUD (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Michael Walsh, 2015.
5 votes: 0% WOKE, 100% CHUD.
Why: Attacks the Western left and critical theory
"In the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world's premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited the burgeoning transnational elite in New York and Washington embraced not only the war's refugees, but many of their ideas as well, and nothing has proven more pernicious than those of the Frankfurt School and its reactionary philosophy of "critical theory." In The Devil's Pleasure Palace, Michael Walsh describes how Critical Theory released a horde of demons into the American psyche. When everything could be questioned, nothing could be real, and the muscular, confident …