David Frum: I think it was the best book I've read this year. The David's, as we call them, take aim at you and the other big history writers for perpetuating a kind of false origin story. They make the case that in contrast, hunter gatherers as it existed before the coming of agriculture was one of bold social experiments resembling a carnival parade of political forms. We had David Wengrove on the show to talk about the dawn of everything a few months ago. Extraordinary book.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold more than 40 million copies. He joins Rufus for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, life in the Stone Age, the future of democracy, and the threat of AI.
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