Reddit mentions of Against the Gods?: A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism

They are not left-wing academics. In fact, I made a comment addressing this a month ago. The relevant part is this:

But here's the thing... they're not on the Left. Boghossian is a "classical liberal" who wrote the foreward in known white supremacist Stephen Molyneux's book and has appeared on his channel to discuss the "issue" of feminism in atheist circles. He, like Jordan Peterson and so many other "classical liberals", make a boogeyman out of Postmodernism and tie it into social justice issues in order to attack the Left.

Pluckrose is a weird case, but she very much seems interested in the same anti-progressive agenda as her peers. Her self-described "best known essays" read as follows: ‘How French Intellectuals Ruined the West: Postmodernism and its Impact, Explained’; ‘Why I No Longer Identify as a Feminist’; ‘The Problem with Intersectional Feminism’ and, with James. A. Lindsay, ‘A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity’.

She, like all the other classical liberals I've described thus far, has a very familiar political pedigree:

>She is currently writing a book about the impact of postmodern thought on academia and the impact of this on social-justice movements and wider culture.

Now, a possible counter to this is that she claims to be left-leaning (second source here). I'd have to know more to figure out exactly how much of this is accurate, but I'll take her at her word. Despite this, she has the same anti-progressive slant as her fellows and the IDW, all of which follow the "classical liberal" label. So I'll call her a Left-winger, but she's certainly an unorthodox one.

So what about James Lindsay? Does he follow the same trend? Oh shit yea. Who can forget such instant classic essays as "Are Academics Cowards? The Grip of Grievance Studies and the Sunk Costs of Academic Pursuit", "Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice", and "The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in our Post-Everything World". Lindsay doesn't even call himself someone on the Left, as he insistently calls himself just a "liberal".

So no. Only one of these people is a leftist, and Pluckrose's body of work seems to consist mainly of shitting on modern feminism and, surprise surprise, using "Postmodernism" as a boogeyman to attack Leftists with. These people aren't the left attacking the left; they're part of the stupidly-named "intellectual dark web", the dweebs that swap platforms between Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin so they can jerk themselves into a frenzy about how much of a threat protesting college kids and "Postmodern Neomarxist" academics are.

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So when you say stuff like this:

>. Its kind of amazing the (apparent) lack of self examination and instead the focus on punishing the hoaxers.

I don't think you've actually looked into this. These people are politically motivated, capitalizing on the trend of anti-left sentiment and hiding behind a veneer of their own "leftism" to hide their history of very clear anti-left sentiments.