The Anthropocene Anthropologist: Reflections on Bizarroland
Conrad KottakConrad Kottak, a cultural anthropologist, comments on contemporary issues.
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A Hit Job with Footnotes
By Conrad Phillip Kottak
A commission of eminent scholars recently decided to examine whether politics has corrupted academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Their April 2026 report makes some good points. It also does t...
Weenie Politics: Insecure Masculinity Comes to Texas
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
Last fall I published an essay on what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez memorably called insecure masculinity. I argued that men perform exaggerated displays of dominance precisely when their actual authority is in doubt....
Anti-MAGAts in the Manosphere: An Update
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
The right-wing manosphere runs on young men’s grievances. Andrew Tate, a British-American former professional kickboxer facing rape and human trafficking charges in Romania, returned to the United States in Februar...
The Media Figures We Lose
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
When I was a kid, The Wonderful World of Disney came to television in association with the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The show offered stories from the four realms of the Magic Kingdom: Frontierl...
A Book Called Bizarroland
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
When I started posting on Substack nearly a year ago, it never occurred to me that I was writing a book. I was writing essays. But as friends and colleagues read the weekly posts (and sometimes more than weekly), s...
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