Contingency, Causality, and Chaos: Toward a Critique of Harari's "Sapiens"

Critique of Big History in Harari’s "Sapiens," 1.1

[Section of a lithograph by April Burke]

“We have been seduced by Harari because of the power not of his truth or scholarship but of his storytelling.”—Darshana Narayanan, “The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari,” Current Affairs (2022)

In my inaugural post, I provided some background on Marx & friends and why my first series for the newslett…