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Postmodernism Corrupts Academia: The Truth Behind Grievance Studies | Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

Postmodernism Corrupts Academia: The Truth Behind Grievance Studies | Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

Certain fields of academia, particularly those influenced by postmodernism and critical theory, have become corrupted by a focus on ideology over truth, leading to a lack of intellectual rigor and a stifling of rational discourse    Questions to inspire discussion  What is the Sokal hoax? —The Sokal hoax was a 1996 academic hoax where physicist Alan Sokal published a fake paper filled with nonsensical postmodern jargon in a Duke University journal to test if postmodern cultural critics would accept a nonsensical argument. The hoax exposed the abuse of scientific terminology to make political points in academia. What is the Grievance...

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