In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to assume the directorship of the Centre Français in Warsaw. Less than a year later, he abruptly left the country. According to a ...

Academics of a certain age will remember when you couldn’t take a seminar without hearing about Foucault and the Panopticon. The panopticon was Jeremy Bentham’s design, intended for a prison. As I ...

Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly spots this tidbit in a recent interview with President George Bush: "I am the very last President not to really have to worry about YouTube" while campaigning for ...