“This essay was commissioned by the guest editors of a special issue of the academic journal Social Text but rejected by the journal’s editorial collective on the grounds it was theoretically unsophisticated that included a ‘cheap shot’ at professors.” This message precedes an article by Robert Jensen, who is always worth reading, on academic freedom in Counterpunch. I suppose that can only be the same Social Text that was taken in by Alan Sokal, whose article for that magazine was famously theoretically sophisticated, but also nonsensical.