Universal Basic Income Will Make Serfs of Us All

Valerie Vande Panne / Independent Media Institute Jan 15, 2019 The proposal has found support from progressives and conservatives alike. But spending more money can't solve capitalism's ills. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

What Makes Millennial Socialism Different

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 26, 2018 As writer Ben Judah argues, the Occupy movement, Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders changed this generation's thinking, and made a come-from-behind win like that of New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez possible. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘I Found Myself Turning Into an Idiot!’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 6, 2015 Salon contributor Elias Isquith asked former university academic, author and activist David Graeber what made him want to write a book about bureaucracy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Reclaiming the Radical Imagination

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jan 14, 2014 We now live under a form of casino capitalism that revels in deception, kills the radical imagination, depoliticizes the American public and promulgates what might be called disimagination factories and punishing machines. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

David Graeber: ‘There Has Been a War on the Human Imagination’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 13, 2013 American intellectuals have had plenty of cause for despair in these Roman decades of international and domestic imperialism against different ways of thought and life. At an April launch party in San Francisco for the 22nd volume of the countercultural magazine The Baffler, anthropologist and contributor David Graeber explained some of how this happened and praised a nationwide grass-roots effort to reverse the trend. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

David Graeber: They’re Enslaving You With Debt

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 31, 2013 Debt has been weaponized "pretty much continually" for the last four or five millennia by "people who have access to the ability to make credit," the anthropologist, Occupy activist and anarchist said on the "Keiser Report" TV show in late April. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Will the Harvard Austerity Error End Economic Sadomasochism?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 22, 2013 "It seems unlikely," anthropologist and author David Graeber writes. "After all, as I and many others have long argued, austerity was never really an economic policy: ultimately, it was always about morality." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘The World Tomorrow’: Occupy

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2012 In the seventh episode of “The World Tomorrow,” Julian Assange and key Occupy figures from both sides of the Atlantic met in a hollowed-out Deutsche Bank building to talk about the movement’s inception and the challenges it has faced so far. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Author and Academic Comments on Wall Street Protests

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2011 Protesters continued to occupy Manhattan's financial district Monday. "Democracy Now!" has footage of the demonstration and interviews with activists, including a conversation with distinguished anthropologist, author and protest-goer David Graeber. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )