Alan Sokal’s “Transgression”

Alan Sokal’s “Transgression”

Explaining his now famous parody in Social Text’s “Science Wars” issue, Alan Sokal writes in Dissent (“Afterword,” Fall 1996):

But why did I do it? I confess I’m an unabashed Old Leftist who never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed to help the working class. And I’m a stodgy...