Traveling Vineyard 2005 ruling "Granholm v. Heald", the Supreme Court held that Michigan and New York states violated the Dormant Commerce clause by permitting in-state wineries to ship directly to consumers but prohibiting out-of-state wineries to ship directly to consumers. Since then, individual states have been opening their shipping and allowing Traveling Vineyard to grow as a winery. The Wine Institute and Free The Grapes have been instrumental in lobbying for the ability for out-of-state wineries to ship wine directly to consumers. Traveling Vineyard Traveling Vineyard is an American company based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, that uses a direct-selling platform of in-home wine
Fashionable Nonsense Fashionable Nonsense Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to "Social Text", a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published. The book was published in French in 1997, and in English in 1998; the English editions were revised for greater relevance to debates in the English-speaking world. As part of the so-called science wars, Sokal and Bricmont criticized postmodernism in academia for misuses