“He was already convicted of planning at least one terror attack, but then he was let out conditionally. Glenn then tells the story of Michel Foucault, the influential gay French philosopher who enthusiastically supported the 1979 Iranian Revolution, only for the new regime to almost immediately start executing homosexuals. In his 1979 essay on the Iranian Revolution, he never named the executions, never admitted he had been wrong about the regime he praised, and never took his support back. “So how is [Foucault] actually wrong? “If everything is a mask, then you can’t tell the difference between a constitution and a firing squad,” says Glenn.