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Who Speaks for Anthropology?
An Ethnographic Approach to the Vanderbilt Report A 2026 commission declared anthropology the single worst case of scholarly deterioration in the…
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A Hit Job with Footnotes, Part II
What the Responses Got Right, and What They Left Out A 2026 commission of eminent scholars declares anthropology the worst case of scholarly…
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Here We Go Again: Venezuela, Iran, and the Fallacy of Underdifferentiation
Why Master Plans Usually Fail In 1984, consulting for the World Bank, I identified a planning error I called the fallacy of underdifferentiation: the…
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American Patterns of Consumption as Illustrated by the Robinson Family of Atlanta, Georgia A bar trivia question about top American brands led me to…
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A Hit Job with Footnotes
A New Report Gets Anthropology Wrong A major April 2026 report on scholarship in the humanities gets some things right. Its critique of relativism is…
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Weenie Politics: Insecure Masculinity Comes to Texas
by Conrad Phillip Kottak The Texas Senate race has recently turned from inflation and gasoline prices to the question of whether James Talarico, a…
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Anti-MAGAts in the Manosphere: An Update
The Progressive Voices Actually Breaking Through The right-wing manosphere has lost Charlie Kirk to an assassin's bullet and gained Andrew Tate singing…
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The Media Figures We Lose
From Walt Disney to Alex Trebek, Dr. Joy Browne, and Stephen Colbert, media figures become part of our lives because they fit the worlds they help…
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