Claudio Lomnitz

Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. His latest book is Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico.

Letter to the Editor: “Mexico’s Disappeared”

If the Ayotzinapa case goes unpunished, there will never be a commitment from the state to resolve the broader issue.

  • Camilo Ruiz Tassinari
  • Claudio Lomnitz

Mexico’s Disappeared

Forty-three students became democracy’s martyrs. What about the other 110,000 missing?

  • Claudio Lomnitz

Complicated Places

Some states are too weak for purposeful collective action.

  • Claudio Lomnitz

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

  • Claudio Lomnitz
  • Rafael Sánchez

Latin America’s Rebellion

Will the new left set a new agenda?

  • Claudio Lomnitz

Mexico’s Race Problem

And the real story behind Fox’s faux pas

  • Claudio Lomnitz

American Soup

The basic principle of Samuel Huntington’s patriotism: never recognize that anything of substance comes from somewhere besides Anglo-Protestantanism.

  • Claudio Lomnitz
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