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May 23, 2023
What Are Rules For?
A conversation with historian Lorraine Daston about her recent book on the history of rules and how they have structured life across centuries.
Ishan Desai-Geller
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March 21, 2023
The Hidden Treasures of Pirate Democracy
In his final book, David Graeber looks at an experiment in radical democracy and piratical justice in Madagascar.
Marcus Rediker
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September 20, 2021
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Anarchist History of Humanity
In The Dawn of Everything, Graeber and Wengrow offer a sweeping and ambitious exploration of life without the state.
Daniel Immerwahr
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September 9, 2020
That Was David Graeber
The anthropologist who coined “the 99 percent” and “bullshit jobs” died at age 59.
Malcolm Harris
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June 2, 2020
Letters From the June 15/22, 2020, Issue
Don’t blame the Boasians… Tilting at windmills… Dark recesses… The road already taken… Submerging the valley…
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May 5, 2020
The Long Shadow of Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and their circle sought to show the fallacy of biological and physical difference, but they also created new forms of categorization that reinforced their underlying biases.
Jennifer Wilson
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October 5, 2017
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July 12, 2016
The Political Uses of Malcolm X’s Image
For Muslim youth, interest in the black freedom movement is part of a larger turn toward an American conception of race—it fills a political void and offers a sense of belonging. But at what cost?
Hisham Aidi
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June 16, 2016
Bad Intelligence
David Price’s long battle against anthropology’s collaborations with the national-security state.
Peter C. Baker
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November 2, 2000
Anthropologists as Spies
Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.
David Price