Yuval Noah Harari: the historian of today's disruptions

The essay 21 leçons pour le XXIth century attempts to target current challenges and provide answers. This is a refreshing exercise in pedagogy, as the author assumes the role of popularizer that too many scientists and thinkers have abandoned.

Following the success of his two previous books, Sapiens and Homo Deus, which explored humanity's long history (the past in the former and the future in the latter), Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari now turns his attention to the issues of the present. From technological disruption and artificial intelligence to the fragility of liberal democracies and the ecological crisis, each of these themes is addressed in twenty-one chapters.

From the very first pages, the tone is set. Harari writes for the general public. Instead of pedantic, pointless intellectualism, the’