Episode Synopsis "James Lindsay on the Sokal Squared hoax, and everything that's wrong with politics"

In today's episode, I got to sit down with James Lindsay, one of the authors of a series of hoax papers that formed part of a high-profile probe exploring politicization and corruption in disciplines that James and his colleagues call "grievance studies". James is an avowed leftist, who nonetheless sees his work as a necessary exposé of a problem that  specifically afflicts his own side of the ailse. During our chat, we explore the crisis of confidence that's unfolding within the humanities and academe more generally, as well as what it means to be on the left or the right in an age where labels don't seem to cut it anymore. 

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