Yuval Marari is a Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author of
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2015) and
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2017), both global best-sellers and both well worth reading. His newest book,
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) is extraordinarily good, full of hard-headed reasoning and solid common sense (though that sense is not anywhere near as common worldwide as the name implies!).
The world faces a number of increasingly difficult problems. Harari takes on many of these and proposes fruitful ways of thinking about them and approaching them. I like especially his piece on "How do you live in an age of bewilderment, when the old stories (fascism, communism, liberalism) have collapsed, and no new story has yet emerged to replace them?"
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