Michel Foucault is usually thought of as an intellectual hero of the left. But it turns out he's far more useful for the right. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

In "The Last Man Takes LSD," two authors track Foucault's late-in-life rightward turn, beginning with a hallucinogenic 1975 visit to Death Valley.

Adapted from "The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution" by Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora, Verso Books, May 2021.In the spring of 1975, Michel Foucault was set to lay claim to ...

To the Editor: Richard Wolin’s “Foucault the Neohumanist?” (The Chronicle Review, September 1) was news indeed. It turns out that the Foucauldian classics — Discipline and Punish, The ...

In 1975 and 1976, Michel Foucault published two books that single-handedly reoriented scholarship in the humanities: Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality. Thereby, Foucault ...

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics like Noam Chomsky, who derided Foucault’s moral theories ...