#CritiquingBigHistory

Capitalism and the Scientific Revolution

How capital separated workers from control over the potentials of science

Mar 29, 2025 • Kevin Thomas

Benevolent imperial vision

Critique of Big History in Harari’s “Sapiens,” Part 3.5

Jan 14, 2025 • Kevin Thomas

The historical logic of late capitalism

Critique of Big History in Harari’s “Sapiens,” Part 3.4

Dec 2, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

Is Nazism a humanism?

Critique of Big History in Harari’s “Sapiens,” Part 3.3

Nov 25, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

Telling different stories about the French Revolution

3.2 in my critique of Big History in Harari’s “Sapiens”

Oct 13, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

For individual freedom without inequality

Critiquing Harari’s claim of a contradiction in liberal values

Sep 19, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

The "magic" circle of the modern economy

Harari’s trinity: the banker, the contractor, and the entrepreneur

Sep 1, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

An ideal of social order?

Harari’s confusing historiography on the Code of Hammurabi

Jul 28, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

A bewildering palette of possibilities

Critiquing Harari on division of labor

Jul 7, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

An insatiable ambition to explore and conquer

Critiquing Harari on European exceptionalism

Jun 30, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

Doing business with kings

How Harari confuses early capitalist history; and how recent research supports Marx's theory

Jun 8, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

Capital vs. community

Comparing Harari and Marx on the Industrial Revolution

May 25, 2024 • Kevin Thomas

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