David Graeber joined the department in 2013 and remained until ... Just before his death he completed the manuscript of The Dawn of Everything (2021). This was the fruit of a decade-long collaboration ...

In his magisterial, counterintuitive 2021 opus, The Dawn of Everything, Graeber and co-author David Wengrow demonstrate how traditional Western historical understandings of the evolution of ...

We asked graduating students about their time at Columbia and the advice they'd give to the next generations—here is what ...

As David Graeber and David Wengrow note in their best-selling The Dawn of Everything, prior to the 17th and 18th centuries ...

Indeed, Smith has made a name for herself throughout her career for criss-crossing genres and stretching the bounds of her ...

Jared Diamond, E.O. Wilson, Yuval Noah Harari, and David Graeber and David ... More recently, Graeber and Wengrow sought in ...

3. The Postcard, by Anne Berest. 4. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber, David Wengrow. 5. Quietly Hostile: Essays, by Samantha Irby. 6. Ultra-Processed People ...

In the Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow explain how around 300 AD the Teotihuacans, after smashing temples and pyramids, “embarked on a remarkable project of urban renewal ...

The past and future are set to collide in Megalopolis, and now we have our first glimpse of what that will look like.

What they all shared, and what they left for us, was the belief that prehistory is the key to understanding ourselves. In Geroulanos’s powerful telling, this history matters because it shows that an ...

There’s still much to be learned about our prehistory. But we can’t help using it to explain the societies we have or to ...