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When Anthropology Overturned a Way of Seeing the World

An interview with Charles King

April 24, 2020 • by Charles King and Zach Schwab
Zach Schwab [ZS]: In the Acknowledgements section of this book you attribute the original inspiration behind it to a series of conversations that you had with your wife. I was wondering if you could elaborate on how that took place, and maybe the moment when you first realized that this ...
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Trump and the End of America’s Dreaming

October 26, 2016 • by Christopher Lebron
The other day as my son and I walked to his school, he began riffing -- as 5 year-olds are wont to do -- on the wonder of the police. As most kids do at some point, he has developed an interest in uniformed public servants. The police interest him ...
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