"And then he threw down the gauntlet. Sokal was not, as he explained, trying to embarrass Social Text; his broader aim was political, for he believed–and he was not alone–that postmodernism and theory were bad for the left, and that the academic wing of the left was aggressively undermining the foundations of progressive politics:"
Michael Bérubé in Democracy ponders the legacy of the Sokal Hoax, fifteen years later.
Update: And for the twentieth anniversary of the Sokal hoax, Jennifer Ruark in The Chronicle of Higher Education presents an oral history.
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