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Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

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Virginia Heffernan
Jan 24, 2023
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If you’re around Brooklyn this evening, Tuesday, January 24, please stop by the central Brooklyn Library—10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238—to catch a conversation about David Graeber’s final book, Pirate Enlightenment, about how the rowdy pirates of Madagascar and their descendents helped create the masterpiece of would-be “Western” civ — the Enlig…

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