Archie Carter is not the construction worker from Queens he claimed to be, in a piece, “DSA Is Doomed,” that went viral this morning. In fact, when I spoke to him on the phone, he wasn’t even calling from a New York number.

“Tell them I live in the area of [Jacobin managing editor] Micah Uetricht,” said the playful voice on the other line. Carter — this twenty-four-year-old Illinoian’s pseudonym — had reason to be happy. He had successfully baited Quillette — the self-described “platform for free thought,” though more widely known as a platform for phrenology — with a “little Sokal experiment.”