Thank you , Prof. Fish , for bringing theory back into the public eye--even if the reaction is frightening. although this patological theory may not be political - it 's politics in university hiring and tenure decisions certainly produced political casualities. if one did not ' buy ' into the ' french disease ' in one 's work , there was little hope in getting a tenure track position at many universities. thus , having been locked out of the academy , many far better and learned scholars are now doing other things with their lives depriving many students of a far better education than they are curently recieving from the charlatans guarding the gates of nonsense .