Chris Knight

Anthropologist, London

Chris Knight is a senior research associate in the department of anthropology at University College London. He is the author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (1991) and Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics (2016). His website is scienceandrevolution.org.

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Written by Chris Knight

A large control room with people sitting at consoles in two rows, facing away from each other, under blue lighting.

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War and peace

The two Chomskys

The US military’s greatest enemy worked in an institution saturated with military funding. How did it shape his thought?

Chris Knight

Five laughing nuns in white habits and wimples sitting inside an old vehicle, with the steering wheel visible in front.

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Anthropology

Did laughter make the mind?

A psychological relief valve and a guard against despotism, laughter is a uniquely human – and collective – activity

Chris Knight