Pirate enlightenment, or, The real LibertaliaThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late 17th century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships

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We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot

the conflict and - let's be honest - the awkwardness that can come from telling your boss

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