“So what does it matter if some French guy wants to think of his penis as the square root of minus one? Not much, except that on American campuses, especially the more elite ones, such utterances were routinely passed off as examples of boldly ‘transgressive’ left-wing thought.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, “Farewell to a Fad” http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/ehrenreich.html