The best guide to this change is a New York University lecturer named Geoff Shullenberger, who has written a pair of essays exploring the political valence of Foucauldian ideas. They are best read in reverse chronological order: Start with his long piece in the latest issue of American Affairs, "How We Forgot Foucault," which takes up the philosopher's peculiar absence from the pandemic debates, and then turn to his earlier essay, "Theorycels in Trumpworld," on the flowering of postmodern theories and themes among Trumpist figures on the right.]