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a review of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin. Penguin Press, 2023

a review of Pirate Enlightenment, or the New Libertalia by David Graeber. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2023 David Graeber left us one last book before he died, sadly, at the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Pirate Enlightenment, or …

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a review of Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Alex Prichard. Oxford University Press, 2023

a review of War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance by Daniel Akst. Melville House, 2022

a review of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism, Second Edition by John P. Clark. PM Press, 2022

a review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021

a review of No More Mushrooms: Thoughts About Life Without Government by Kirkpatrick Sale. Autonomedia 2021

Critical theory is a bit like pornography, as a Supreme Court justice once said when asked to define the latter: “I know it when I see it.” Critical theory can be defined pretty loosely as well. It’s the multitude of …

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A friend tells me of his first job out of college. He was hired to run a senior center, not attached to a nursing home, in the Bronx.

a review of Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000 by Kris Hermes. PM Press, 2015 pmpress.org