The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

''The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,'' wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively essays as he was for his iconic role in the Occupy movement and his paradigm-shifting tomes.

There are converging political, economic, and ecological crises, and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a mythical past. Thinking against the grain, Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future - to imagine a social order based on humans- fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time - inequality, technology, the identity of ''the West,''