What does humankind’s ancient history have to do with our current existential predicaments? With millions of new refugees seeking to escape aerial attacks targeting civilians while billionaires playing at being astronauts seek…
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The Dawn of Everything
Searching for better questions (while building a better world)
July 28, 2022
In Graeber and Wengrow’s book, as in my teaching practices, the questions are difficult not because they need to prove how smart the person posing them is. In radical pedagogy and scholarship,…
July 28, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
In the Garden
July 21, 2022
Does Adam and Eve’s disobedience indelibly inscribe this freedom, and freedom as such, into our habits of thought—for what disobedience could be more foundational than disobeying God?
July 21, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
The dawn of everything good?
July 14, 2022
The authors’ message is a hopeful one: that humans aren’t predetermined by our ecological conditions or by teleological or evolutionary sequences where one thing follows inexorably from the last, but rather that…
July 14, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
Back to basics, or how to tell a new origin story
July 7, 2022
The implications of Dawn for the study of religion are vast. We could consider the evidence that Graeber and Wengrow marshal, but I want to think more precisely about Dawn’s form—what it…
July 7, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
A prolegomenon to some future history
July 7, 2022
[I]t was pretty obvious that in this first piece of writing, we’d get about as far as trying to jettison some very outmoded ways of thinking about human history, inherited largely unthinkingly…
July 7, 2022
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