Thread by @kennardmatt

Graeber leaves such a huge hole.

In UK, he was unique in that his academic brilliance had given him some mainstream purchase but he’d never let that world colonise his thinking—he had a totally free mind. His only priorities were truth+justice.

I’ll miss his presence incredibly

I was a reporter with the FT in New York when Occupy Wall Street kicked off. At start, me and my colleague told the news editor that we should be covering it. He said “not our sort of thing”. Over following months we interviewed Graeber a bunch of times.
ft.com/content/8b599c…

Despite being a sort of hero down at OWS, he was always unassuming and open—and completely embedded in the movement rather than above it.

So eloquent as well, with a deep understanding of many areas. We interviewed him at length at the time, but FT wouldn't let us profile him.

This is the profile interview we did for the FT during OWS that was never published in the paper. David Graeber on debt, education, and social control.
mattkennard.tumblr.com/post/903562924…