David Graeber | The Guardian

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own. By David Graeber and Da...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/nov/01/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past-podcast

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own In some ways, accounts ...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/19/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past

Turkey is seen as the Kurds’ mortal enemy but it uses German tanks and British helicopters: this is an international outrage Remember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended th...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/01/americas-kurdish-allies-syria-turkey-nato

Jessica Elgot is joined by Will Tanner, Katy Balls and Rebecca Lowe to discuss a raft of new Conservative thinktanks formulating plans to connect with young voters. Plus author David Graeber disc...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2018/may/31/can-tories-reach-young-voters-politics-weekly-podcast

Copying and pasting emails. Inventing meaningless tasks for others. Just looking busy. Why do so many people feel their work is completely unnecessary? One day, the wall shelves in my office co...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job

Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian war Three years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fight...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/world-leaders-brutal-attack-kurdish-afrin-turkish-army

I’m a lefty academic versed in feminist theory. Still, I rebelled against the idea that rich and powerful men regularly rape or attempt to rape women This is a very difficult column for me to...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/05/dsk-sexual-assault-feminism-weinstein-casting-couch

It’s obvious the Tories have stolen Ukip’s platform – but the prime minister has also adopted Labour initiatives and slogans. She’s playing a clever game Everyone already knows how much ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/10/theresa-may-labour-tories-ukip

The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike – because it’s about grassroots democracy As the rolling catastrophe of what’s already being called the “...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/political-establishment-momentum-jeremy-corbyn

Western leaders could destroy Islamic State by calling on Erdoğan to end his attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey and allow them to fight Isis on the ground In the wake of the murdero...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/18/turkey-cut-islamic-state-supply-lines-erdogan-isis

The government wants us to believe our economic growth is sustainable, and that budgetary surplus will fix all our problems. But these are dangerous myths British public life has always been ri...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/28/2008-crash-government-economic-growth-budgetary-surplus

There is one taboo of economics that the government is hiding from the public, argues David Graeber: it is the fact that if the government balances its books, it becomes impossible for the privat...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/oct/28/david-graeber-what-government-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-debt-video

One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary Roy Bhaskar, who has died aged 70 of heart failure, turned to philosophy only after becoming an eco...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/04/roy-bhaskar

After the 2008 crash, the most sensible reform would have been to make the financial system more like education, not vice versa There is a certain type of joy only felt the first time one makes ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/20/students-march-against-markets-education-free

Sleeping outside for an iPhone is OK, but do it in furtherance of democratic expression and you’re in trouble You can tell a lot about the moral quality of a society by what is, and is not, c...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/27/occupy-democracy-london-parliament-square

Amid the Syrian warzone a democratic experiment is being stamped into the ground by Isis. That the wider world is unaware is a scandal In 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the Internationa...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/08/why-world-ignoring-revolutionary-kurds-syria-isis

Capitalists spread prosperity only when threatened by global rivalry, radical movements and the risk of uprisings at home Back in the 90s, I used to get into arguments with Russian friends about...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/30/savage-capitalism-back-radical-challenge

Why has the basic logic of austerity been accepted by everyone? Because solidarity has come to be viewed as a scourge "What I can't understand is, why aren't people rioting in the streets?" I he...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge

The Bank of England's dose of honesty throws the theoretical basis for austerity out the window Back in the 1930s, Henry Ford is supposed to have remarked that it was a good thing that most Amer...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-money-iou-bank-of-england-austerity

If Reinhart and Rogoff's 'error' has discredited the prevailing policy dogma, now is the time for an alternative that works The intellectual justification for austerity lies in ruins. It turns o...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/21/no-need-for-economic-sadomasochism