From prisons to sexuality, Foucault argued that knowledge isn’t just information—it’s power disguised as truth. This intro unpacks how modern life is shaped by invisible systems of control.

Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the ...

Trump is destroying democratic norms. Democrats have decided to follow him into the basement. When both parties cooperate to ...

Such questions of victimhood lie at the heart of John Grisham’s new novel, The Widow. The book is marketed as a classic ...

Amélie Nothomb, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Houellebecq or Bernard-Henri Lévy are authors we prefer to watch rather than read.

We're not afraid, we're not trembling and our objective as journalists remains the same as it was in the 1990s when the first CounterPunch newsletter went to press: to question the received wisdom, ...

Philosophy a subject, though unknown of its potency for many, also compounded by the fact that the subject is being taught in very few colleges and Higher Secondary Schools in Nagaland, yet, it is a s ...

Art Basel Paris 2025 has settled into itself. Now in its fourth edition, the fair feels less like an ambitious transplant and ...

The 150th anniversary of Fort England Psychiatric Hospital makes it South Africa’s oldest psychiatric facility. Rory du ...

After the Hunt, the latest film from Luca Guadagnino, is ostensibly about a great many things. It is a film about campus ...

Thoughts on Cinema is an essay by author Joseph Aisenberg on movies, as seen through the work of Susan Sontag.