Reviewed: Down and Out in the New Economy How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today by Ilana Gershon (2017) Before the Market by DN Wang (2018) The story of modernity is the story of atomization. From enclosure to the gig economy, human communities, relations, and even the very concept…

I ran across a telling quote about the American psyche in Ed Yong’s How the Pandemic Now Ends: Emily Brunson, an anthropologist at Texas State, has studied vaccine attitudes and thinks that broad, top-down orders “wouldn’t play well, and the pushback could do more harm than good.” But strong mandates…

Michael McFaul misunderstands history and theory. Again. In his article Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy, McFaul takes aim at two imposing targets: the realist school of international relations theory and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It’s a misfire. McFaul argues that policy is governed by individuals…