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Barbarian Virtues | The Nation

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By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. P eople are going paleo; it is the height of trendiness. Edit wheat out of your diet, the multiplatform advice goes, especially if you want lower blood pressure or rock-hard abs. James C. Scott says there is much more at stake. Grain is not just bad for one’s health; it is the fruit of a ghastly disaster long ago that brought with it the domestication of other plants and animals, and even of ourselves. Worst of all, it is bound up with the origins of that most baleful thing, the state, which has bred horrors from its beginnings, propagating vast moral and material hierarchies and the murderous v

October 5, 2017 This article appears in the October 23, 2017 issue . Illustration by Tim Robinson. Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Get The Nation ’s Weekly Newsletter Fridays . The best of the week. Email By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation ’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Thank you for signing up for The Nation ’s weekly newsletter. Repro Nation A monthly newsletter on the global fight for reproductive freedom. Email By signing u

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