American Exceptionalism and Violent Protests

It is important to understand that for more than fifty years, American foreign and defense policies such as EUCOM, PCOM, … More

How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Part 3

The demise of national capitalism. To talk of the world economy being “informalized” suggests that there is a global rule-system, … More

How the informal economy took over the World – Part 2 by Keith Hart

The dialectics of form. “General Forms have their vitality in Particulars, and every Particular is a Man” (William Blake). Most … More

Seeing Culture Everywhere: A Book Review by Keith Hart

The authors of this well-written book tell how they were pushed by their editor into writing for a general audience. … More

Why George Floyd Matters

With all due respect and no malice intended but the George Floyd murder is not the first time African American … More

Pandemics: Agents of Global Change – Part 2

The Economic and Commercial Impact of Pandemics: By now, the COVID-19 influenza outbreak has reached practically all parts of the … More

New Preface to Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy by Keith Hart

IV. The informal economy has taken over the World The idea of an informal economy was born in the 1970s … More

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

The Subjugation of Liberal Democracy

Are we witnessing in our lifetime the slow destruction of liberal democracy? Have we exhausted the limits of a political … More

Religious Colonizing in Brazil

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

The Collapse of Societies

By now, the entire world is aware of the historic and unprecedented events occurring in the United States.  It seems … More

Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart

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

The Political Economy of Food in an Unequal World-by Keith Hart

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

Filtered Realities

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

The Mueller Report: Highlights

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

The Horror of War – Part 3

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

The Horror of War – Part 2

It was Christmas Eve and it just so happened that I pulled guard duty. The post I was assigned to … More

The Horror of War – Part 1

With all the violence in the world and the ever growing movement of mankind toward more violence, it appears there … More

The Virus of Violence

In the study of epidemiology, one has an opportunity to learn about communicable and non-communicable diseases. This curriculum is usually … More

An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 1 by Keith Hart

Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, well-known for his inspiring YouTube lectures and documentary shorts, … More

The Real Race Problem – Part 1

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

The Culture of Corruption

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

There’s Something in the Water

A recent death in the family necessitated a return to the United States after living abroad for the past ten … More

The Struggle for Power by Keith Hart

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharma, London: … More