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TOM FLYNN: Yuval Harari Smears Humanism TOM FLYNN: Yuval Harari Smears Humanism CELEBRATING REASON AND HUMANITY June/July 2017 Vol. 37 No.4 “Blasphemy needs legal protection as a matter of equality before the law and as a precondition for citizens’ rights to exercise their freedom of expression and freedom of conscience.” — Flemming Rose EDWARD TABASH | OPHELIA BENSON RUSSELL BLACKFORD | SHADIA B. DRURY JOE NICKELL | LEAH MICKENS 80% 1.5 BWR PD J/J 08 07 Published by the Center for Inquiry in association with the Council for Secular Humanism 7725274 74957 IL ! Digital-Only Subscriptions to FREE IINQUIRY is now available for digital- only subscription. Digital subscribers can read the full contents of each new issue— and selected articles from issues back to 1996—online, without receiving physical magazines by mail. The content is viewable on desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. 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Each recipient will receive an e-mail reminder when a new issue is published. * Sorry—it is not possible to convert a current print subscription to digital only. ty’s Polonsky Prize for Creativity and TOM FLYNN Originality and the National Library of Editor Thomas W. Flynn EDITORIAL China’s Best Book of the Year Award. Managing Editor Andrea Szalanski Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Columnists Ophelia Benson, Russell made Sapiens a 2015 selection for his Blackford, Greta Christina, online book club, Bill Gates put it on Edd Doerr, Shadia B. Drury, his 2016 list of “Five Books to Read Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, Gregory Paul This Summer,” and more than one Senior Editors Bill Cooke, Richard Dawkins, hundred thousand people have taken Edd Doerr, James A. Haught, Smearing Harari’s free online course in English Jim Herrick, Ronald A. based on themes from the book. Lindsay, Taslima Nasrin Humanism In other words, Sapiens is a phe- Contributing Editors Levi Fragell, nomenon in intellectual publishing, Adolf Grünbaum, notwithstanding that an American- Marvin Kohl, Lee Nisbet Assistant Editors Julia Lavarnway market edition of its English trans- Nicole Scott lation did not appear until 2015. (A s it too soon for an editorial that Literary Editor Cheryl Quimba sequel, Homo Deus: A Brief History of steps back from the perpetual train Permissions Editor Julia Lavarnway Tomorrow, should reach the American wreck of Donald J. Trump’s presi- market before you read these words.) Art Director Christopher S. Fix dency to focus on one of human- Production Paul E. Loynes Sr. But back to Sapiens. It is nothing if Iism’s more, well, perennial discon- not sweeping. Its daunting subtitle, A Center for Inquiry Inc. tents? I call attention to someone in Brief History of Humankind, manages Chair Edward Tabash the public eye—someone who ought to understate the book’s sprawling Board of Directors David Cowan to know better—who denigrates hu- scope. Chapter 1 actually begins with Richard Dawkins Brian Engler manism in ways that are wildly un- the words: “About 13.5 billion years Kendrick Frazier true, yet appears not have made the ago, matter, energy, time and space Barry A. Kosmin slightest effort to ascertain the facts. Y. Sherry Sheng came into being in what is known as J. Anderson Thomson Jr. A reader might think that I’m still the Big Bang.” Leonard Tramiel discussing Trump. But truly, I’m not. I Harari’s goal is nothing less than Honorary: refer to Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli Rebecca Newberger to explain how everything came to Goldstein history professor and best-selling au- be—the principles that underlie life; Susan Jacoby thor who has presented an extreme how language arose; why H. sapiens Lawrence Krauss and factually untethered critique of came to be the sole surviving repre- Chief Executive Officer humanism in a hugely high-profile sentative of the genus Homo; how and President Robyn E. Blumner book. we got the sciences, economics, and Senior Research Fellow Ronald A. Lindsay If you haven’t heard of Harari, politics—and where we’re headed Director, Campus and you need to. Think of him as Israel’s with them. When filling a canvas this Community Programs Debbie Goddard answer to Malcolm Gladwell, another large, there’s always the temptation Director of Public Engagement Stephanie Guttormson polymath who offers big answers to to spin “just-so stories.” Prominent Vice President for Philanthropy Martina Fern big questions in fast-flowing prose. among those is Harari’s treatment of Director, African Americans But while Gladwell is a journalist, humanism. for Humanism Debbie Goddard Harari is a tenured history professor In chapter 12, “The Law of Reli- Director of Libraries Timothy Binga at the Hebrew University of Jerusa- gion,” Harari devotes nine breathless Communications Director Paul Fidalgo lem. He has an enviable academic pages to humanism—or, as he calls it, Database Manager Jacalyn Mohr record, including four well-regarded “The Worship of Man.” (Yes, really.) Database Administrator Dave Churvis books of military history.
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