The Latest Breaking News from David Graeber

"Anarchism and democracy are—or should be—largely identical," wrote the anthropologist David Graeber.

David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum exhibition, it is part serious memorialisation, part entertainment, and part invitation to play.

The latest slicing of social segments is a floating voter and a welcome addition to the merry-go-round of political life, writes Andrew Anthony

Pirate Enlightenment documents an interracial experiment in stateless self-governance.

As a pandemic, the rising cost of living and stagnant wages lead a young workforce to reject the ‘work hard and move up in the world’ ethos of old, social media has become a valuable outlet for youthful apathy, writes Joseph Bobowicz

They’ve been portrayed as toothless, wooden-legged cut-throats. But a new exhibition in Cornwall shows there were queer pirates, female pirates, pirates of colour – and they all got a vote (and an equal share of the grog)

Craft beer is big business. In 2021, craft beer sales in the US (the biggest beer market by sales) totaled US$26.8 billion (£22 billion) and represented 13.1% of overall sales of beer. And it’s a growing market.

The late anthropologist on how an 18th-century Madagascan microstate provides a model for egalitarian living

In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands. Later, they discovered farming and domesticated animals for food and service.