Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative (review)

Most critics would probably agree that postmodern theory has both heralded multiculturalism and left it adrift. Still controversial, multicultural theories, as Stanley Fish has pointed out, seem at once revolutionary and incoherent. Yehudi O. Webster directs his book Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative toward the incoherence rather than the revolution. In the spirit of a “demasking exposé” made notorious by William Bennett, Dinesh D’Souza, and Allan Bloom, Webster manages a gallant and often successful effort at clearing away at least some of the obfuscation surrounding this ill-defined movement.