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In his recent book, Joseph Henrich argues Western culture exists because the Catholic Church got obsessed with incest. Here's my in-depth review.

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It is not socialism that explains capitalism, argues Max Weber, it is rather capitalism that explains socialism. And as long as capitalism exists, socialist aspirations will persist: “What characterises our current situation is firstly the fact that the private sector of the economy in conjunction with private bureaucratic organisation and hence with the separation of the worker […]

Bruno Latour, the preeminent sociologist, original anthropologist, and highly influential thinker, dies aged 75. This is devastating news and an enormous loss.If there is a scholar whose tremendous contribution would be simply impossible to describe in a short blog post — this would be Latour’s. Even the Holberg Prize‘s – the most important award in […]