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I have decided to blame Harari for everything. He turned public-intellectual culture from mostly harmless sideshow of Tom Friedman/Malcolm Gladwell era to toxic “service thinking” designed to align with target tribal fictions

I have decided to blame Harari for everything. He turned public-intellectual culture from mostly harmless sideshow of Tom Friedman/Malcolm Gladwell era to toxic “service thinking” designed to align with target tribal fictions https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari

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I feel like the more attention people like Harari receive, the more criticism they attract, which makes sense.

At the risk of being non-gloomy, are there books or specific authors that might get compared to Harari that are more factually correct and/or tend to be more celebrated by the scientific community?

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I think more honest people would not attempt such grand global syntheses at book length at all but do something like fiction, or focus on a particular thread in history to make more cautious versions of the points with a lot more data. I think Tom Holland's Dominion might be a decent example though I haven't read it

Dominion was fun. Much narrower in scope. *just* the geopolitics of Christianity