Sokal 2.0 as Ideological Turing Test

Normally, I avoid blogging on anything topical; I want to write for the ages, not our daily hysteria.  But I’m going to make an exception for… “Sokal 2.0.”  The Chronicle of Higher Education provides an overview:

Three scholars — Helen Pluckrose, a self-described “exile from the humanities” who studies medieval religious writings about women; James A. Lindsay, an author and mathematician; and Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University — spent 10 months...