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“That’s unbelievable,” my father-in-law wrote me from Ireland after watching me give a statistic-heavy webinar on the advances for the poor in Nicaragua since 2007. “I know, right?” I replied. “No, I mean it’s actually unbelievable,” he wrote back. “For cynical people like me, our faith in humanity has been undermined. The story of a […]
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The Opposite Of A Cynic: David Graeber, 1961-2020
September 6th, 2020 
Awake Goy Above photo: David Graeber speaks at Maagdenhuis Amsterdam March 7, 2015. What is the opposite of a cynic? I have been wondering about this question since I heard the news of David Graeber’s death yesterday. I haven’t quite been able to come up with an answer: believer, idealist, optimist? All of those words capture something of […]
