David Graeber

In his final book, David Graeber looks at an experiment in radical democracy and piratical justice in Madagascar.

A new book provides a framework that engages with “big history” or “deep history” while avoiding explanations that flirt with forms of determinism.

Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.

We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. But it’s time to take off the eye patch.

Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.

New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.

It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.

In 2011, a grassroots anticapitalist movement galvanized people with its slogan “We are the 99 percent.” It changed me, and others, but did it change the world?

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

On the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism.