There are still a few sane academics in America, but they are a dying breed.
Critical theory has so invaded the academic world that there is almost no point in trying to have a conversation with a university professor. It’s not that they are just wrong about what they believe and what they spout. It’s that they don’t believe that there is an underlying concrete reality that exists outside their own heads.
That is, at the base, the foundation of critical theory. Reality is a construct, language is about exercising power, and reality is what they say it is. Power+language=reality.