Nexus assessment: Yuval Noah Harari is out of his depth in his new guide

Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari (Fern Press, out 10 September)

Studying Nexus is a wierd expertise. The standard of the textual content lurches up and down: one minute you might be studying one thing incisive, the subsequent you might be wading by banalities.

Its writer, Yuval Noah Harari, is a medieval historian most well-known for his guide Sapiens, a whistlestop historical past of humanity from the Stone Age to the current day. Its central thesis is that people got here to dominate the planet as a result of we are able to consider in issues that solely…