Public Anthropology
Interventions
Disability and the Worship of Work
December 16, 2025
Dagmar Herzog’s The Question of Unworthy Life challenges the believe that a life needs to be useful to be meaningful. What can history teach us about the predicaments faced by disabled Americans today? See https://somatosphere.net/disability-and-the-worship-of-work/
Care, Empathy, and the Big Beautiful Bill
August 1, 2025
Whose empathy is really being weaponized? Read my essay, “Trump and the GOP don’t care about health care providers”, in Salon.
Medicaid Work Requirements
July 6, 2025
“The Cruelty of Medicaid Work Requirements” appeared in TIME in February 2025. The Republicans have sworn that work requirements won’t affect people like my daughter. They’re wrong. Read the essay at https://time.com/7260543/medicaid-work-requirements-disability-essay/
What Is Anthropology?
March 23, 2022
What is anthropology? The word “anthropology” literally means “the science of humanity.” Lots of disciplines could lay claim to the same highfalutin title, from anatomists to historians to psychologists. Yet there is something about the anthropological study of “everything human” that makes anthropologists different and, in my opinion, gives us the primary right to the phrase “we study people.” Read my essay, “What Is Anthropology?”, in Sapiens.
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