Nexus evaluate: Yuval Noah Harari is out of his depth in his new e book

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

Studying Nexus is an odd expertise. The standard of the textual content lurches up and down: one minute you’re studying one thing incisive, the subsequent you’re wading by way of banalities.

Its writer, Yuval Noah Harari, is a medieval historian most well-known for his e book 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 will imagine in issues that solely…