Climate, Gender, Politics, Resistance
Jonathan Neale This is the first of several articles that put the protests in Minneapolis in the context of swiftly moving changes and ruptures in the global system. This article argues that the conflict over the Epstein files is the largest single confrontation so far in a long global struggle against sexual violence by the Continue reading Minnesota and the Epstein Files
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale One of the great class confrontations of our time is playing out in Washington DC right now – the Epstein files. We know that sounds like a really, really weird thing to say. But look at what’s happening in front of our eyes. On September 3, 2025, roughly twenty working Continue reading The Epstein Files and Class Struggle
Jonathan writes: Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper have just published The Piruzai of Afghanistan: A Visual Ethnography with White Horse Press. It s a 360 page book of photographs in colour and black and white from their fieldwork with pastoral nomads in northern Afghanistan just over half a century ago. The book is a record of Continue reading A Bibliography for The Piruzai of…
Nancy Lindisfarne writes: In the early 1970s, Richrd Tapper and I spent a year doing anthropological fieldwork with the Piruzai, pastoralists and farmers in northern Afghanistan. Our new book, The Piruzai of Afghanistan – A Visual Ethnography, tells their story in some 380 photographs, mostly in colour. Since the time of our fieldwork, Afghanistan has Continue reading The Piruzai of Afghanistan A…
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale A 6 minute read Trump is in deep trouble. Look at the photo. Those are the 800 generals and admirals Hegseth and Trump summoned from all over the world to meet together and be admonished. Look at their faces. They are angry. Hegseth called them weak, unmanly and fat. He Continue reading Trump is in Deep Trouble
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: We have been watching the suffering on our phones and screens for almost two years. Now famine is here. Far from the horror, it seems obscene and unbearably self-indulgent to say that Gaza is upsetting. But certainly, many of the rich and powerful of this world seem to want Continue reading The Destruction of Gaza is Creating a New Normal to Shame and…
The photo is of the heroic journalist Julie K. Brown NANCY LINDISFARNE and JONATHAN NEALE report: This article says four important things about the Epstein files. First, though all the talk is about conspiracy theories, this case is of a piece with the cover-ups of the abuse of gymnasts by Larry Nasser; the cover-ups of Continue reading The Epstein Files and Me-Too
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale A 16 minute read. The sociologist Elizabeth Bernstein did fieldwork with sex workers in San Francisco between 1994 and 1998.[1] By her estimate, 20% of sex workers in the city in 1994 worked on the streets. Four years later, 2% of sex workers walked the streets and 98% worked indoors. Continue reading How Neoliberalism Transformed Sex Work in the United States
A memoir of my mother by Jonathan Neale This short book is 121 pages long. You can read it here on Anne Bonny Pirate, but it s probably easier for you to download a PDF here. Dedication: for Raymond. The Mashpee Ambulance It’s the summer of 2011. My brother Peter and I have a deal. He Continue reading CAPE CARE
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, a 6 minute read. Let’s clear up some confusions. Trump and Putin are not negotiating with each other. They are on the same side. So Putin is not manipulating Trump. And Trump is not weaker than Putin. They are two of the most important leaders of a global alliance of Continue reading Trump and Putin are on the Same Side