Pandemics: agents of global change

It was the early 1990s, while working at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia, I became interested in epidemiology. … More

Cultural Critique: Anthropological – by Keith Hart

Cultural critique, the use of anthropology to draw critical attention to institutions that readers take for granted, is as old … More

After Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, I sort of lost the desire to write anything more about the country. … More

In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual … More

Food in a New Economic Order What is ‘new’ about neo-liberalism? It is a world economic order based on selective … More

In order to proceed, we must first acknowledge the more than three decades of work by a man who has … More

The Mueller Report is probably one of the most extensive legal investigations in the history of the United States. Certainly, … More

Sometime in June 1971, an incident occurred that completely changed my attitude toward the US Army. In fact, I was … More

On the eve of the one-hundred and eighth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ newspaper The Crisis, we are presenting, in … More

Many of us know that political corruption is not new to the world. It is an unsavory, human practice with … More

World society today resembles nothing so much as the eighteenth century ancient régime that Kant had every reason to believe … More

There is something terribly wrong going on in American schools today. A silent epidemic is spreading throughout the country like … More

We attempt here to explore the relationship between anthropology, social media and public engagement through a web-based network that we … More

Many people throughout the Western world do not understand what is happening in the Middle East. Much of the confusion … More

Separation from Europe has opened up the real possibility that the United Kingdom will break up. Scotland is already bent … More

This is an opinion piece that some might say loosely fits within the realm of anthropology. And yet, if one … More

It is not necessary to explain the process by which algae through millions of years of geological time and chemical … More

In the May-June 1993 issue of Wired Magazine, an article on a group of mathematicians advocating a radical, libertarian, cryptographic … More