# Alan Sokal

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9 JAN 2024 - SCOTUS Takes up Colorado Trump Ballot Ban, Postmodernism Exposed as Fraud, Mike Johnson Budget Deal, Pennsylvania Keeps the Statue of William Penn

By now we have all said good by to 2023, and we are looking forward to 2024. Of course, this is a presidential election year. Our first story is that the Supreme Court will be taking up the Colorado Trump Ballot Ban case – along with the State of Maine, which also wants to block Trump from the b ...

Reignite the Free Speech Spark

Since its establishment in March 2023, the Ian Mactaggart Programme has provided generous financial support to a range of free speech initiatives among young people. One particularly exciting project is the inaugural ‘Modern Dissent’ lecture. This will be given by Professor Eric Kaufmann, FSU Ad ...

What REALLY happens at the Free Speech Union…

Celeste, an FSU Case Officer, and External Affairs Officer Connie discuss what goes on behind the scenes at the FSU, what case officers do when they receive your emails to the help@freespeechunion.org line, and what tactics they deploy against those who try to silence you.    Cases and news of n ...

Episode 88: Wellbeing

Maybe it’s the most important thing any scientist can study: what makes people happy? The trouble is, despite the importance, a lot of the science on “wellbeing” tends to be very rickety. But did you know that even one of the best-known findings of wellbeing research—the midlife crisis, or “inve ...

Alan Sokal

Alan Sokal, Professor of Mathematics at University College London and Professor Emeritus of Physics at New York University, discusses his (in)famous "Sokal hoax" (1996), how the hoax was almost revealed, and the contemporary issues that have followed from his Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosoph ...

Fashademics 3 - Postmodernism, Sokal & The Science Wars

My guest for this episode is William Gillis (@rechelon.bsky.social), an anarchist author with a background in physics. We covered a broad range of topics in this conversation; From postmodernism vs realism to Alan Sokal, to disturbing undercurrents in segments of the radical/subcultural left, to ...

UNLOCKED (Full Ep) Fashademics 3 - Postmodernism, Sokal & The Science Wars

This episode has now been unlocked, as promised! My guest for this episode is William Gillis (@rechelon.bsky.social), an anarchist author with a background in physics. We covered a broad range of topics in this conversation; From postmodernism vs realism to Alan Sokal, to disturbing undercurrent ...

S8 Ep1320: Peter Berkowitz reflects on the 30th anniversary of Alan Sokal's famous academic hoax, which exposed the intellectual decline wit

Peter Berkowitz reflects on the 30th anniversary of Alan Sokal's famous academic hoax, which exposed the intellectual decline within higher education humanities. Berkowitz critiques contemporary humanities departments for their ideological hypocrisy: professors claim objective truth is subjectiv ...

S8 Ep1325: TABLE OF CONTENTS THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW 8-21-2026 Anatol Lieven discusses the war in Ukraine, highlighting Ukrainian drone and

TABLE OF CONTENTS THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW 8-21-2026Anatol Lieven discusses the war in Ukraine, highlighting Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure like Black Sea resorts and a commercial center. He carefully examines the psychological impact of these infrastructur ...

E110: The Grievance Studies Affair: A Rhetorical and Political History (Part 1)

In the first installment of this multi-part series, Alex and Calvin trace the intellectual genealogy behind one of the most consequential academic hoaxes of the past decade.  In Part 1, we outline the precursor hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, and then introduce the three figures who would come t ...