David Graeber’s final book uncovers the politics of the high seas.

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s new history of humanity looks for the origins of authoritarianism and freedom.

Malcolm Harris’s book sketches a radical politics for the generation between Occupy Wall Street and the age of Trump.

In search of civic evolution

Why the revolutionary left has always been bad news for democracy

It's not as dangerous as the country's right-wing violence. But a romantic history of resistance has led to a strange culture of normalizing anarchist bombings.

How gun culture and radical politics are combining to produce a new kind of zealot

John Merriman's new book tells the story of a violent gang in nineteenth-century Paris.