Status isn’t just displayed—it’s engineered into everyday life. From boarding lines to debt burdens, class now shapes who moves first, who waits, and who is seen. An anthropological look at how inequality is performed—and normalized. #Class #Inequality #Anthropology
Oil routes burn, markets tremble, and power shifts at home. War with Iran isn’t just foreign policy — it’s an engine reshaping the U.S. economy, civil liberties, and political order. My new essay looks at the domestic stakes behind the headlines.
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #EnergyCrisis #USPolitics
We live in a world where the consequences of what we consume are hidden from us by distance, markets, and infrastructure. What happens when obligation dissolves but impact does not? #ClimateChange #PoliticalEcology #Anthropology #Sustainability #Environment
In Tututepec, a Mixtec stela still receives offerings centuries after conquest. It is not a relic, but part of a moral landscape—where humans, animals, ancestors, and place exist in reciprocal relation, obligation, and restraint.
#Tututepec #Anthropology #Mesoamerica #SacredLandscape #MoralEcology
Modern authoritarian states no longer need mass killing to produce mass suffering. They govern by deciding who will be protected — and who can be left exposed.
#Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #Immigration #HumanRights #Democracy
What’s being built in plain sight isn’t ideology—it’s capacity. Detention, surveillance, selective enforcement, and legal ambiguity form a system that no longer depends on political will once operational.
#Democracy #Authoritarianism #Power #Surveillance #RuleOfLaw #USA
“Remigration” isn’t about return—it’s about erasure. A neutral word repurposed to sanitize exclusion, discipline labor, and redefine belonging as bloodline rather than civic life. Language is doing political work again. #Anthropology #Authoritarianism #Migration #Democracy
Trump Trump’s attack on Somali Minnesotans reveals how whole communities become targets through tone, not law. As suspicion moves into daily life, protections weaken unevenly, showing the early mechanics of democratic erosion in the U.S.
#Immigration #Democracy #AuthoritarianDrift
Trump’s domestic-terrorism order reframes dissent as danger and loyalty as security, turning institutions into tools of division. What looks like policy is really a test of allegiance—and a warning about who counts as belonging and who does not.
#Authoritarianism #DomesticTerrorism #Citizenship
When Trump calls Americans “traitors,” he’s not venting—he’s redefining dissent as disloyalty and narrowing who counts as part of the nation. That shift has real consequences for public safety and for democracy itself.
#Democracy #Authoritarianism #Treason #USPolitics
Our options are narrowing and the costs are climbing, but while some of the damage done is irreversible, we can still do a lot to keep it from getting worse.
Climate models were never crystal balls—they’re tools for understanding a world in flux. Five years ago uncertainty loomed large. Now the danger comes not from what we don’t know but from how fast change is outpacing politics. The science isn’t the problem. Delay is. #ClimateChange #PublicScience
The science is settled. The timeline is not. The new denialism isn’t disbelief—it’s delay.
#ClimateAction #ClimateDelay #FossilCapital #DiscoursesOfDelay #Policy #Power #Anthropocene
Why do so many deny what they can already feel and see? Climate denial isn’t ignorance—it’s meaning preservation, a cultural defense against moral reckoning.
#ClimateChange #Denialism #Anthropology #PoliticalEcology #PublicAnthropology
A century ago, Edward Bernays taught America how to sell with emotion. From Madison Ave to MAGA rallies, we’ve become fluent in persuasion and strangers to truth. The question now is what we’ve sold of ourselves.
#Propaganda #Democracy #Bernays #Advertising #Authoritarianism #MediaCulture
Between Halloween and the Day of the Dead, we flirt with the border between life and death. Our fascination with vampires and zombies reveals how power feeds, obedience spreads, and the living forget what it means to be alive.
#Anthropology #Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #DayOfTheDead #Democracy
Trump’s Asian trade deals were hailed as triumphs, but behind the spectacle lies fragility. Allies play to his ego, not his strength—managing his volatility while rebuilding global trust without him.
#Trump #Trade #Economy #Asia #Authoritarianism #GlobalPolitics
Born at the dawn of the atomic age, I grew up watching mushroom clouds on TV. A lifetime later, Trump’s order to restart nuclear testing revives the old theater of annihilation—where destruction itself becomes the language of power.
#NuclearSpectacle #Authoritarianism #ClimateJustice #StatePower
When I first read Orwell’s 1984, it felt like science fiction. Today it reads like journalism. Big Brother isn’t fiction anymore—it’s Clearview AI, data brokers, and loyalty scoring dressed up as administration.
#Surveillance #Authoritarianism #Orwell #CivilLiberties #Democracy #PoliticalEconomy
Hurricane Melissa was not just another storm. While the seas rise, the state erases the evidence. Denial doesn’t stop the damage—it shifts the costs, silences the vulnerable, and turns disaster into political theater.
#ClimateCrisis #HurricaneMelissa #PoliticalEcology #ClimateDenial #Democracy
Trump’s war on universities isn’t about budgets. It’s the authoritarian playbook—a ritual purge erasing inquiry, silencing memory, and hollowing the civic infrastructure of democracy.
#Trump #Universities #Authoritarianism #HigherEd #Anthropology #Pluralism #AcademicFreedom
DEI is being weaponized: inclusion recast as betrayal, equity as tyranny. This isn’t rollback of civil rights—it’s a rewriting of who belongs in America.
#DEI #Belonging #Exclusion #CivilRights #Authoritarianism
On Oct 20, demolition began on the East Wing. Two days after No Kings Day, Trump answered protest with a palace. Architecture is no longer background—it is the script of power.
#NoKingsDay #Democracy #Authoritarianism #Architecture #Trump #History
White Christian nationalism isn’t new. It’s a revival—rooted in conquest, slavery, and segregation—dressed up as patriotism and faith. The struggle isn’t only against policies, but against who counts as American.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Democracy #History #CivilRights #ReligionAndPolitics
Trump isn’t a puppet or a fool. His intelligence lies in spectacle, improvisation, and domination. That makes him more dangerous, not less.
#Trump #Authoritarianism #Spectacle #Democracy #Politics
White Christian Nationalism collapses America’s plural worlds into one sacred story. Cultures are never fixed—our shared dynamism may be the best defense.
#Pluralism #Anthropology #Democracy #Culture #ReligionAndPolitics
Trump’s grotesque AI videos aren’t rants. They’re ritual acts of sovereignty, where humiliation becomes justice and spectacle becomes rule. To confront authoritarian power, we must first read the machinery of meaning. #Spectacle #Authoritarianism #SymbolicPower
Is Trump a Russian asset? That may be the wrong question. His open volunteering to the fraternity of autocrats—through flattery, spectacle, and sabotage—poses a deeper threat to democracy.
#Trump #Putin #Authoritarianism #Disinformation #NationalSecurity #Democracy
Trump’s America First policy, mafia-style diplomacy, and gutting of research budgets have left America weaker, more isolated, and open to rivals abroad.
#ForeignPolicy #AmericaFirst #Trump #Alliances #PoliticalEcology #SoftPower #TradeWars #NecronStateAbroad
Citizens stood shoulder to shoulder against intimidation. The No Kings Day protests reveal the courage, solidarity, and moral clarity required to resist creeping authoritarianism.
#NoKingsDay #CivicCourage #Authoritarianism #DemocracyUnderThreat #Protest #Resistance #CommunitySolidarity #Freedom