Apropos the "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities" by Boghossian et al. I'm reminded of Eric Schliesser's fine piece "The Letter against Derrida’s Honorary Degree, re-examined":
The Times (London). Saturday, May 9, 1992 Sir, The University of Cambridge is to ballot on May 16 on whether M. Jacques Derrida should be allowed to go forward to receive an honorary degree. As phi…