Tag: Moral Optimism
Jason Antrosio , October 31st, 2020
I endorse the Biden-Harris ticket for the United States presidency. I believe this is more than a personal preference–it is informed by anthropology. In short: Anthropology endorses Biden-Harris…
Jason Antrosio , May 25th, 2020
In a time of global convulsion, I’m rethinking the purpose of Living Anthropologically as a blog and website. And yes, that image up there is borrowed from the…
Jason Antrosio , May 2nd, 2020
It’s 3 May 2020 in the United States. People say we are past the peak coronavirus surge, but it remains a slow-moving disaster. And at a time when…
Jason Antrosio , June 22nd, 2019
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> Impeaching Trump, Anthropologically Many eloquent statements have been written about why Trump should be impeached for ethical and legal…
Jason Antrosio , May 28th, 2019
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Jason Antrosio , November 3rd, 2018
As you may have heard, mid-term elections are November 6 in the United States. My district is New York 19, which anthropologist Greg Laden sees as one of…
Jason Antrosio , August 1st, 2018
Update August 2018: This guest post by Robert Seguin on “Farmers and Foodies of the Future” was originally written in August 2015. Three years on, a post by…
Jason Antrosio , July 18th, 2018
Update July 2018: This post was originally written in 2013 in an attempt to bring an anthropological perspective on studying immigration to what looked like could have been…
Jason Antrosio , June 12th, 2018
Stand with Migrants Against Fascism In 2011 the American Anthropological Association (AAA) issued a General Statement on Immigration. This 2011 statement was a testimony to a need for…
Jason Antrosio , June 12th, 2018
Standing with Migrants In 2011 the American Anthropological Association (AAA) issued a General Statement on Immigration. This 2011 statement was a testimony to a need for rethinking immigration…
Jason Antrosio , May 20th, 2018
Will Venezuela Recover? As Venezuela holds elections on 20 May 2018, questions of “Will Venezuela recover?” or “Will Venezuela collapse?” arise. When seen in a regional context…
Jason Antrosio , April 19th, 2018
What happens if the US runs out of money? This post is a part of a series examining the possibility of a rather quick US collapse, rather than…
Jason Antrosio , April 11th, 2018
When will US Government Collapse? This post on “When will US Government Collapse?” is part of a series examining the possibility that rather than a slow, processual decline…
Jason Antrosio , April 6th, 2018
(if the United States collapses, that is) This series has been examining the question of When will the United States collapse? The decline of US hegemony is usually…
Jason Antrosio , April 4th, 2018
As in the previous post on When will the United States collapse?, I’ve been working on a draft of this for a couple months. So I might have…
Jason Antrosio , April 4th, 2018
As of 4 April 2018, I had been working on a draft of this post on “when will the United States collapse” for a month or so. I…
Jason Antrosio , December 12th, 2016
Update June 2017: This post was written at a time when the Electoral College should have exercised a duty that they did not. Although the evidence was available…
Jason Antrosio , December 12th, 2016
Electoral College Update June 2017: This post was written at a time when the Electoral College should have exercised a duty that they did not. Although the evidence…
Jason Antrosio , November 7th, 2016
United States, November 2016. There was a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. A lot of hate, not a lot of love. A lot of terrified…
Jason Antrosio , November 7th, 2016
Racially Mixed Crowd in the November Rain United States, November 2016. There was a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. A lot of hate, not a…
Jason Antrosio , May 17th, 2016
After a long time thinking about it, I’ve decided that I support the BDS Movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. But I plan to vote against…
Jason Antrosio , December 6th, 2015
Update 14 June 2017: Re-releasing this Gun Control Podcast from 2015 as the stories break on Alexandria and the San Francisco UPS. I support gun control and a…