The visit evoked the one made by Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Britain, at Christmastime in 1941 to speak to Congress in the Senate chamber of a “long and hard war” during World War II. In one of her closing acts as House speaker in December, Pelosi hosted Zelenskyy for a joint address to Congress. “That was really quite a message and quite an optic to be there. Pelosi offered rare praise for McCarthy’s own meeting with Tsai, particularly its bipartisan nature and the choice of venue, the historic Reagan library. “Cowardly,” she said about the military exercises China launched in the aftermath of her trip. Last year, in one of her final trips as speaker, Pelosi touched down with a delegation in Taipei, crowds lining the streets to cheer her arrival, a visit with the Taiwanese president that drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, which counts the island as its own. remained a partner despite the Republican president’s “America First” neo-isolationist approach to foreign policy. During the Trump era she acted as an alternative emissary overseas, reassuring allies that the U.S. Pelosi’s travel abroad has not been without political challenges, and controversy. It’s a polemic.Pelosi told Zelenskyy in a video released at the time “your fight is a fight for everyone.”Ī year on, with no end to the war in sight, Pelosi said: “I would have hoped that it would have been over by now.” “Essentially, we reduce everything to a cartoon so as to be able to detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible.” Put another way, this isn’t a book that attempts to be scientifically accurate, whatever that might mean. “Social theory is largely a game of make-believe,” the authors write. Indeed, Graeber and Wengrow seem aware of this comparison, noting with a wink at one point that early human history, with its Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, was like a world full of “hobbits, giants and elves.” And though the book is packed with explanatory material from early civilizations - Wengrow is an expert in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern archaeology - it’s also a self-conscious exercise in mythmaking.
This final work is a fitting capstone to his career, a tome that rivals fantasy epics in heft and imaginative scope. The famed anarchist philosopher, a major figure in the Occupy movement as well as an influential scholar, died in late 2020. Sadly, this book is also Graeber’s last work.
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