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• CCompact2026-10-15✓ Read

  The Foucault Century

  Michel Foucault, by some counts the world’s most cited author, was born a hundred years ago today. Though he died forty-two years ago, the controversial philosopher’s image remains remarkably cutting-edge. Foucault’s signature concepts—power/knowledge, panopticism, biopower—still sound deliciously subversive. Though he died too soon to be drawn into our never-ending culture wars, he continues to be associated—negatively or positively—with queer theory, the critique of the gender binary, prison abolition, and postcolonialism.

  
• CCompact2026-10-14✓ Read

  The Marxist Who Foresaw the AI Bubble

  Like the 2020s, the “Roaring Twenties” of a century ago witnessed a technological revolution: The rise of the automobile, widespread electrification, and mass production had all transformed everyday life. In his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination in 1928, Herbert Hoover declared that America was closer than any society in history to the “final triumph over poverty.” But trouble was brewing.

  

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