Once, it’s said, when shown a new scientific paper, the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli sighed and said: “It’s not even wrong.” Some ideas are so incomplete, or so vague, that they can’t be judged.

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the bestseller "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," returns with "Nexus: A Brief ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 14—Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" is one of those books that either reveals something new in ...

He needs them. Harari might be, after the Dalai Lama, the figure of global renown who is least online. He doesn’t use a smartphone (“I’m trying to conserve my time and attention”). He meditates for ...

Geoff Bennett: Yuval Noah Harari as a professor of history who is renowned for his broad and thought-provoking perspectives on human history. Harari, who is the bestselling author of “Sapiens,” ...