Despite Foucault’s own wealthy, bourgeois background, he experienced painful moral rejections. In turn, he developed a severe, almost automatic reflex against pieties and pressures to conform.

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.

How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right. May 25, 2021. ... Having conservatives turn Foucauldian to own the libs doesn’t seem worth the ironies — however rich and telling they may be.

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 ...

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.