Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out by newyorker.com Two of Bill Gates’s favorite soup-to-nuts books of the past decade are Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature” and Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens.” The appetite for such stories seems indiscriminate—tales of deterioration and tales of improvement are frequently consumed by the same people.
Web Excursions 2021-11-08
Web Excursions 2021-11-08
Web Excursions 2021-11-08
Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out by newyorker.com Two of Bill Gates’s favorite soup-to-nuts books of the past decade are Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature” and Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens.” The appetite for such stories seems indiscriminate—tales of deterioration and tales of improvement are frequently consumed by the same people.