Humanism and Authority

8/29/2017; 3 minutes

Historian Yuval Noah Harari has taken the world on a tour through the span of humanity, from apes to rulers of the world. Harari became an international sensation when he argued in his best-selling book Sapiens that humans conquered the world through our ability to believe in collective myths about gods, money and freedom. In this excerpt Harari describes the fundamentals of Humanism. (#32826)

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