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Charles King

Bylines

The Real Washington Consensus

Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy.

by Charles King via Foreign Affairs on October 24, 2023
Happy Captive Nations Week!

We're supposed to celebrate one of the weirdest artifacts of the Cold War.

by Charles King via Slate on July 24, 2014

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

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The Defender of Differences

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."

by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on May 14, 2020

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How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity

A brave band of scholars set out to save us from racism and sexism. What happened?

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on August 29, 2019

The Life and Times of Franz Boas

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.

by Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2019

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