{"product_id":"the-devils-pleasure-palace-the-cult-of-critical-theory-and-the-subversion-of-the-west","title":"The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the aftermath of World War II  America stood alone as the worlds premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited Europe for intellectual and artistic guidance  the burgeoning transnational elite in New York and Washington embraced not only the wars 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 Devils 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 empiricism that had just won the war gave way  in less than a generation  to a central-European nihilism celebrated on college campuses across the United States. Seizing the high ground of academe and the arts  the New Nihilists set about dissolving the bedrock of the country  from patriotism to marriage to the family to military service. They have sown  as Cardinal Bergoglionow Pope Francisonce wrote of the Devil  destruction  division  hatred  and calumny  and all disguised as the search for truth.  The Devils Pleasure Palace exposes the overlooked movement that is Critical Theory and explains how it took root in America and  once established and gestated  how it has affected nearly every aspect of American life and society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945306058805,"sku":"ByrdShop_159403768X","price":27.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781594037689.jpg?v=1769882261","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-devils-pleasure-palace-the-cult-of-critical-theory-and-the-subversion-of-the-west","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}