David Graeber is an anthropologist and anarchist who teaches at the London School of Economics. He was a leader of the Occupy Wall Street movement and, unlike many left-wing academics,...

Response from David Graeber: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/69162/1/Graeber_Eesponse%20to%20Piliavsky_2017.pdf

Editor’s Note: The following review was the result of an extended email exchange between Sarah Neilson and editor Jesse Miller. For more on David Graeber, the politics of play, and assumption-making in critical thought, you can read their conversation below the review.

"A leading modern leftist overlooks the ways the bureaucracy of private industry might actually make the world a better place."

Occupy Wall Street activist David Graeber argues that the right is responsible for red tape in this bleak yet persuasive collection of essays

A sharp, oddly sympathetic and highly readable account of how big government works—or doesn’t work, depending on your point...