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1. About Quillette. Hoaxes happen; people get tricked. Those who published them should have some egg on their face, whether in academic or popular publishing. Some things stand out about this particular hoax.
2. The first is that the primary beat of Quillette is the failings of the left. And yet they really seem not to understand the left at all, or they would have sniffed this out a mile away. They don't understand the criticisms some parts of the left have about others.
3. Another is that what the Sokal Squared hoax purported to show—namely, that leftists themselves are so devoid of actual ideas that they don't even understand what one another are even saying—was revealed in this instance to be false. That leftists readily recognized
4. that the ideological language thrown around by the author did have meaning, and that, taken together, it was incoherent. As it is, the impression left by the incident
5. is that a major part of Quillette's dismissal of the left is toothless because they are not getting what the left is saying. And that that's not because the left is saying nothing./
