A word about David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years. The book is fascinating, no matter what your views on investment banks, the IMF, or capitalism. Graeber is definitively not objective, but he ...

Anthropologists David Graeber and David Wengrow offer a Rousseauian view of human history in their book, "The Dawn of ...

“When [David] Graeber died, five years ago today, he was just about the most important public intellectual in the world” asserts Thomas Peermohamed Lambert (“David Graeber: the Left’s lost hero,” ...

I have just finished reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by anthropologist David Graeber. The book takes a look at the history of money, debt, and how they relate to societal structures from a lens ...

This brilliant posthumous collection of essays by, and interviews with, anthropologist Graeber (The Dawn of Everything) serves as a revealing portrait of Graeber himself. In the interviews, he ...

We often are told there is no other way to organize society — that by our very natures, we’re destined to dominate each other ...

The highlight for me of David Graeber’s 2015 book, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, is his trenchant critique of the post office, which has fallen ...

Writing about the global financial system that, however falteringly, commands the world at present, David Graeber remarks, “In part, these systems work because no one knows how they really work.” No ...

In an era where corporate rigidity and short-termism stifle innovation, David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History Of Humanity (2021) delivers a profound revelation: human ...