Anyone living today could form the impression that humanity is essentially fractured and fragmented; that we're split up along ethnic geographic cultural national and ideological lines. This is the societal reality. But in Anthropology For Beginners Micah J. Fleck asks us to take a big step backward and look at the full picture as if we were aliens who stumbled upon planet Earth and glimpsed its inhabitants. We would see a myriad of languages practices religious rites food palettes clothin...

Counter-revolution has long been a tool of propagandists to redirect populist movements from achieving actual liberation for themselves. But what happens when counter-revolutionaries begin to believe their own claims of genuine revolution? What leads to such a phenomenon? And how big a role does mainstream political ideology and policy play in the mass ignorance and revisionism that has now allowed nationalism to influence national elections?Privileged Populists sets out t...

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally shifted our relationship with work. After years of lockdown, and with many employees working from home, this was the first time in nearly two centuries that people below the class divide found themselves with just as much time for leisure, recreation, and quality time with loved ones as those above. The time away from work changed priorities and opened minds across the working-class, and new demands were now being made in much higher numbers and in far m...