Part reflection on Occupy Wall Street, and part journey through the questions and tensions surrounding an admittedly difficult concept, David Graeber's The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement is a welcome inquiry from an intriguing public intellectual. In the following interview, he discusses some of the major themes of the book.

Salon spoke with David Graeber to discuss 'Debt: The First 5000 Years' and his views on the bureaucratic phenomenon. Their conversation also touches on why Graeber thinks it was a mistake for the left to abandon a more thorough critique of bureaucracy, how bureaucracy can be a response to a deep-seated, psychological need, and why it is that it so often makes us both act and feel "stupid."

Direct Action Network activists Brooke Lehman, David Graeber, Jeremy Varon, and Jose Lugo met with Francesca Polletta over pizza and beer one evening in March 2001 to talk about DAN's experiments with direct democracy. All four have been with the group since near its beginning and have had varying levels of involvement since then.

‘On a deep, cultural level, people actually believe that if you don’t do something that at least mildly frustrates you, then your work is not valuable.’ Anthropologist, activist and bestselling anarchist David Graeber on the police state, bullshit jobs and why people need no telling that capitalism is bad.

David Whelan interviewed David Graeber about his book, 'The Utopia of Rules', useless jobs, the rules we live by, and why Christopher Nolan’s Batman is just a big fat bureaucrat in a cape.

This interview with David Graber, by Peterson Roberto da Silva, took place in London, at David’s office, on the 10th March 2020.