The ideologies analyzed in this forum, when embedded in these and other practices of authoritarian states or far-right actors, exert…
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Year: 2022
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Asking good questions
Dawn dismantles the social science edifice that makes it possible to think that the question “What are the origins of inequality?”…
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
…I ask how Dawn might help us to think of the Americas and the Middle East together. What is to…
Indigenous refusals and near others
Refusal is shorthand for saying, “We’ve seen this before and we don’t want it; and not only don’t we want…
History is full of people with ideas
According to Graeber and Wengrow, European elites did not embrace naturalism and empiricism in their accounts of human history to…
Play astronauts and actual refugees
What does humankind’s ancient history have to do with our current existential predicaments? With millions of new refugees seeking to…
Searching for better questions (while building a better world)
In Graeber and Wengrow’s book, as in my teaching practices, the questions are difficult not because they need to prove…
In the Garden
Does Adam and Eve’s disobedience indelibly inscribe this freedom, and freedom as such, into our habits of thought—for what disobedience…
The dawn of everything good?
The authors’ message is a hopeful one: that humans aren’t predetermined by our ecological conditions or by teleological or evolutionary…