Alan Sokal, the physicist who famously “debunked” the Cultural Studies journal Social Texts by tricking its editors into publishing a paper that was actually a crafted parody of their methods and opinions, threw down the following glove to his wishy-washy colleagues in the humanities: “Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)”