Debbie Bookchin

David Graeber, 1961–2020

David Graeber, the anthropologist and activist, died aged fifty-nine on September 2, 2020. The New York Review, to which he began contributing last year, is collecting tributes from his friends and colleagues.

Report from Rojava

The US maintains that its relationship with the SDF alliance of Kurdish, Arab, and Syrian militias has been purely “transactional.” But this five-year collaboration has had huge military significance for Western security interests in the region.

My Father and the Kurds

Had my father lived to see his ideas about “social ecology” enacted in Rojava and southeastern Turkey, he would have been profoundly moved to know that his revolutionary spirit and vision for human liberation had been reborn among a generation of the Kurdish people.