In his essay “What is an Author,” Michael Foucault briefly discusses the complexities of authorship through considering questions posed after the death of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In the debates over which of Nietzsche’s unpublished writing is worthy of publication, there seems to be a consensus that all of Nietzsche’s
“It seems almost as if we did not want to understand the development which has produced totalitarianism because such an understanding might destroy some of the dearest illusions to which we are determined to cling.” – F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom In realizing the capacities of control via a
At the age of 11 years old, I discovered I was a different student than others. I was an English as a Second Language (ESL) student. This class had one rule: Under no circumstance should we ever speak in another language except English. The school wanted me to assimilate. I
It seems like the term “culture war” is everywhere in our everyday speech: from cable news pundits to newspaper op-eds to people on the street, it seems as if everyone imagines our culture as a state of conflict. But what really is a “culture war” after all? What even is