The Utopia of RulesFrom the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeberone of our most important and provocative thinkerstraces the

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He taught at the NUS School of Architecture

Louër shows how the Sunni-Shi’a divide was never just a dispute over succession—at issue are questions about the very nature of Islamic political authority

and contemporary European efforts to deploy Syrians as low-wage workers in remote regions of Jordan

Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney

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he relished debates about the machine’s ultimate purpose

even life’s most unexpected plot twists can lead to beautiful new beginnings

with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory

and the consequent corruption of education

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mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend