Anthropology is fundamentally an anarchist project, as it zeroes in on levels of social reality where the state, even when it exists, is not the most salient factor in accounting for why human beings do what they do…
Read MoreTo experience a version of the cool exhilaration of a mid-twentieth-century American jazz night, one might start by listening to an iconic Miles Davis recording…
Read MoreAustria’s government has pointed the finger of blame firmly at the unvaccinated…
Read MoreThe role of carbon policy was to keep ‘single agents’ from free-riding on one another…
Read MoreA taste for rural scenes, in the present state of society, appears to be very often an artificial sentiment, rather inspired by poetry and romances, than a real perception of the beauties of nature…
Read MoreEncouraging black people to see themselves as perpetual victims, while assigning to white people the task of becoming enlightened enough to recognize their own inherent and irredeemable racism creates a culture of soft-bigotry…
Read MoreTwenty years ago a prophetic Onion article reported that the Dinty Moore soup company took a firm stand against terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11. Today this is no longer satire…
Read MoreThe most remarkable feature of the mould-breaking expansion of higher education that took place across the world in the 1960s was the foundation of some 200 entirely new universities…
Read MoreAt the sites chosen for the groundnut scheme, tractors and bulldozers from military surplus stores in Egypt proved unable to tackle the hard ground and tough vegetation, so the planners turned to a novel solution: repurposing surplus Sherman M4A2 tanks…
Read MoreGermany is shortly to hold its first ever federal election in which the sitting chancellor is not running…
Read MoreThat thing? It’s just a monster living in Microsoft’s basement. And it’s wearing someone’s face…
Read MoreWokeness is not just a social philosophy, but an elite status marker, a strategy for personal advancement…
Read MoreRobert Gates argued in his memoir that Biden had been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades…
Read MoreThese books destined me to an unbalanced life, like a poorly packed U-Haul that leans too far to one side…
Read MoreThis new world of ours, structured by the internet, is unrelentingly violent, as it is inimical to human freedom and human thriving…
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