#CritiquingBigHistory

For individual freedom without inequality

Critiquing Harari’s claim of a contradiction in liberal values

Sep 19 •

The "magic" circle of the modern economy

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

Sep 1 •

An ideal of social order?

Harari’s confusing historiography on the Code of Hammurabi

Jul 28 •

A bewildering palette of possibilities

Critiquing Harari on division of labor

Jul 7 •

An insatiable ambition to explore and conquer

Critiquing Harari on European exceptionalism

Jun 30 •

Doing business with kings

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

Jun 8 •

Capital vs. community

Comparing Harari and Marx on the Industrial Revolution

May 25 •

Are you a capitalist if you invest in stock?

How Harari confuses the labor-capital relation

May 9 •

Enter “The Capitalist Hell”

Where Harari contradicts his own anti-egalitarianism

Apr 26 •

Two conceptions of desire: Harari vs. Deleuze & Guattari

Plus: Mark Zuckerberg vs. Harari on the origins of WWII

Apr 11 •

Understanding the “direction of history:” How Harari overlooks social forms

Taking another look at the problem of historical contingency.

Mar 28 •

Was money “a purely mental revolution”? Harari’s idealism of economic concepts

Comparing Harari with Marx on money and private property

Mar 21 •

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