Review. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia. By David Graeber FSG: 208 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...

In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European Enlightenment ...

"Anarchism and democracy are—or should be—largely identical," wrote the anthropologist David Graeber. ... Black Sam Bellamy's 1717 pirate crew was "a collection of people in which there was ...

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…, by David Graeber, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 384 pages, $32 Long before European governments or their colonies began to embrace "democracy," something ...

David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum ...

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…, by David Graeber, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 384 pages, $32 Long before European governments or their colonies began to embrace "democracy," something ...

A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...