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David Graeber
April 11, 2023
MagazineIan Beacock
Did Pirates Pioneer Democracy?
David Graeber’s final book uncovers the politics of the high seas.
November 1, 2021
MagazineGeorge Scialabba
Were the Earliest Societies Anarchists?
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s new history of humanity looks for the origins of authoritarianism and freedom.
September 4, 2020
Matthew Zeitlin
How David Graeber Changed the Way We See Money
The radical anthropologist was that rare figure: a scholar who was also an activist.
August 29, 2018
MagazineAtossa Araxia Abrahamian
Money for Nothing
Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck?

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