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Post Tagged 'Michel Foucault'

Bring Back Your Dead

One of the strangest of many strange 21st-century phenomena is the adoption of the ideas of 20th-century left-wing thinkers by the New Right. From Marcuse and Baudrillard to Jameson and Camus, left thinkers have exerted significant influence on the contemporary postliberal and even anti-liberal right. Continue Reading...

Why the Woke Think the Way They Do

Leftists used to focus on economics, but today they fixate on nonbinary genders, microaggressions, and pronouns. Woke progressivism may seem silly, but Jordan B. Cooper, in his new book, Makers of the Modern Mind: A Guide to the Thinkers Who Formed the Modern Left, shows it has deep roots in modern philosophy. Continue Reading...