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In the aftermath of World Warfare II, America stood exclusively as the world's top military electric power. Yet its martial self-assurance contrasted vividly using its sense of social inferiority. Still seeking to a defeated and dispirited European countries for intellectual and creative direction, burgeoning transnational elite in New York and Washington embraced not only the war's refugees but many of their ideas as well, and nothing at all has proven more pernicious than those of the Frankfurt College and its reactionary philosophy of "critical theory". Simultaneously excessively intellectualized and emotionally juvenile, critical theory - like Pandora's field - released a horde of demons into the American psyche. When everything could be questioned, nothing at all could be real, and the muscular, comfortable empiricism that had just triumphed in the war gave way, in under a era, to a Central Western european nihilism celebrated on college campuses across the USA. In The Devil's Pleasure Palace, Michael Walsh looks at how critical theory needed root in the us and emerged to affect almost every part of American life and world - and what can be done to avoid it.
