Race and the Question of Palestine explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system.
Chinas leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world—and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for ......
Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding how freedom and rational agency are impacted by a social world formed by value under capitalism, with consequences for philosophy today.
Complexity can be a terrible and overwhelming force, or it can be a delightful source of new energy and possibility—it all depends on your ability to escape the mindtraps we fall into and create new habits for a new world.
Author and consultant Jennifer Garvey Berger has worked with all types of leaders—from top executives at Google ......
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of serious responses from world leaders, we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress." The ......
Surveying contemporary networks and practices in Peru, Australia, and China, anthropologist Alex K. Gearin explores the visionary marvels, wonders, and diversity of ayahuasca drinking today.
Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from ......
A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked from the credo: To philosophize is to learn to live freely. While he was slow and cautious in ......
The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down
An anthropologists quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.
In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trumps harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. In the years that ......
This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in a.d. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became Byzantium from the western Roman Empire, and ends in 1461, when the last Byzantine outposts fell to ......
