Tag: Humanity
Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’
Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t know anything about the guy; I just selected him because he was young, and therefore, I figured, more likely to agree to talk.
20 Things I’ve Learned About Humanity During The Pandemic
We live in strange and interesting times. Men can be women. Women can be men. Some people can be both, either, or neither. After all, gender is merely a social construct designed to oppress women, who might also be men – allegedly.
White supremacy has (also allegedly) become a racially diverse and multi-ethnic endeavour that permeates the consciousness of every individual. According to ‘progressive’ activists, it is no longer enough to not be racist. One must be actively ‘anti-racist’ –
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Anarchist History of Humanity
Protest speaks a language of forceful insistence. “Defund the police,” “Build the wall”—the unyielding demands go back to Moses’ “Let my people go.” So it was curious when the July 2011 issue of the Vancouver-based magazine Adbusters ran a cryptic call to arms: a ballerina posing atop the famous Charging Bull statue on Wall Street, with the question “What is our one demand?” printed above her in red. The question wasn’t answered; readers were only told,
Joy Williams Does Not Write for Humanity
You don’t encounter the fiction of Joy Williams without experiencing a measure of bewilderment. Williams, one of the country’s best living writers of the short story, draws praise from titans such as George Saunders, Don DeLillo, and Lauren Groff, and many of her readers, having imprinted on her wayward phrasing and screwball characters, will follow her anywhere. But the route can be disorienting, like climbing an uneven staircase in a dream. Her tales offer a dark, provisional illumination, and they