Kieran Healy twirls a stick in a Comments hornet’s nest with his post which includes these bonbons:

…it is nevertheless an important fact that an elite French education can entail learning quite a lot of math in addition to ploughing through the great philosophers. So your typical Next Big French Intellectual often has the wherewithal to bug the shite out of technoids and comp-litters, although only one of these constituencies is typically targeted… The cafés at the Collège de France sell bottled reflexivity instead of Evian.