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What We Owe The Future
“Future people count. There could be a lot of them. We can make their lives go better.” That’s the central idea of What We Owe The Future, a provocative book by William MacAskill who’s an associate professor of philosophy at … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, civilization, longtermism, nonfiction, philosophy, sustainability, William MacAskill
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Everything you thought you knew about human history is wrong. And that’s a good thing. That’s the key message of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, a monumental work of scholarship by David Graeber and David Wengrow. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History
Tagged anthropology, archaeology, book review, civilization, graeber, nonfiction, wengrow
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Sapiens
Last year, I read 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, which I reviewed here. Several friends recommended I read Harari’s earlier book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Now I know why. It’s an excellent book. As the … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, book review, civilization, evolution, nonfiction, sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
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