The author is a social conservative. He's by no means defending Foucault's "assault against sexual normalization". My sense is that, by "recognizing Foucault's

The author is a social conservative. He's by no means defending Foucault's "assault against sexual normalization". My sense is that, by "recognizing Foucault's bleak genius," the subtext is "we need God because otherwise there's nothing but depravity".