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 ...

Not quite a household word (beyond academia, anyway), “panopticon” nonetheless turns up in news stories with surprising frequency—here and here, for example, and here and here. The Greek roots in its ...

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 ...

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When you first approach the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, it puzzles. It’s really nothing more than a large field full of grey blocks of cement arranged in a regular grid across an undulating ground ...

Pakistan and its people must go through the phase in the evolution of a strong state where it exercises its authority sternly so that its writ is firmly established Pakistan is among the few states ...

Atwood, Margaret. “When Privacy Is Theft.” Rev. of The Circle, by Dave Eggers. The New York Review of Books 21 Nov. 2013: n. pag. Web. Boyne, Roy. “Post ...