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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: Panel: Grievance Studies | Boghossian, Lindsay, Nayna, O'Fallon, Pluckrose
Description: In October 2019, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, and filmmaker Mike Nayna gathered in London for a panel moderated by Michael O’Fallon to reflect on the infamous "Grievance Studies" project (https://grievanceproject.com/), often called "Sokal Squared." This provocative project involved writing and submitting intentionally absurd papers filled with ideological jargon to academic journals. Their aim was to demonstrate how deeply critical social justice ideologies had compromised academic rigor, making it possible for nonsensical submissions to be accepted as legitimate scholarship.
During the panel, Lindsay traced the project’s origins to a simple yet unsettling question about whether fields like...