What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance, and Resistance
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place.
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place.
Mind-altering drugs have long been seen as tools for both liberation and control.
Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.
Early cities' concentrated populations and burgeoning scale didn't spontaneously summon pharaonic god-kings or bureaucrats.
Should Americans be tougher on our celebrities—and ourselves? A leading anthropologist says yes.
An anthropologist examines secret societies, revolutionary movements, and esoteric ideas.
A new book probes the roots of humans' destructive impulses.
Students yelled expletives at Lawrence Rosen during class.
The author of Seeing Like a State casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom about the cradle of civilization.
Archeologists offer a new look at a secretive settlement of runaway slaves.
Author David Vine says a growth in overseas bases will damage national security and the economy.
The pernicious silliness of cultural appropriation censorship.
Exploding the myths about the paranoid tales we tell.
Why one approach to stopping leaks won't work.
Two new books ask whether our ancestors were right about food, sex, war, and trade.
A human rights worker takes on The World Until Yesterday
James C. Scott's latest book makes a low-key case for a little bit of anarchism.
A unified theory of fantasy football; Eat, Pray, Love; and Burning Man.
Parts of two-story houses, other structures found in Bulgaria
The New Yorker's David Denby campaigns against "low, teasing, snide, condescending" criticism
Anthropologist Margaret Dorsey on music, marketing, and Texas politics
The marketplace multiplies cultural identities and creates true diversity. No wonder the right and the left are upset.
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