David Graeber

David Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and the author, most recently, of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. (December 2019)

The Center Blows Itself Up

The simultaneous embrace of markets, and of rules and regulations, represents the soul of what’s sometimes called “centrism.” It’s a decidedly unlovely combination. Nobody truly likes it. But the talking classes had reached an absolute consensus that no politicians who departed significantly from it could possibly win elections.

January 13, 2020