Avidly Reads TheoryTheory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous. As an avowed theory head, Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how to.