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Foucault and the Conservatives

Biopolitics and American Gothic

John Ganz
Jun 02, 2021
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Michel Foucault: Discourse

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On May 25th, Ross Douthat had a column entitled “How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right.” His argument is essentially that there’s a curious silence on the left about Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopolitics” in t…

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