I read literally all of the books by Derrida and Foucault in college. I thought their style was cool, and could easily get an A+ on every term paper by emulating their rhetorical tricks, but realized their intellectual content was close to nil. Glad Pinker spared himself.
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If their intellectual content was close to nil, does that mean that it's close to impossible to disagree with it (since there's almost nothing there to disagree with)?
That's the beauty of their writing. Criticizing it is like Caligula trying to attack the sea with roman cavalry. There's just nothing substantive enough to hit.
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Maybe Derrida took Bruce Lee’s “be like water” dictum too literally
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