I’m sitting on the bus listening to politics grad students make fun of a researcher who compared Marx and Foucault using a scientific methodology. It’s called ideology: deconstruction is no better a source of truth than science in the eyes of postmodernism.

I often wonder if I’d be better off in school rather than trying to teach myself postmodern theory. These students have allayed my fears. Like all modernist institutions, academia is chiefly concerned with the accumulation and practice of power, not the pursuit of “truth”.