Human History Gets a Rewrite (SLAtlantic) William Deresiewicz reviews the forthcoming The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity , by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
And what a gift it is, no less ambitious a project than its subtitle claims. The Dawn of Everything is written against the conventional account of human social history as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau; elaborated by subsequent thinkers; popularized today by the likes of Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steven Pinker; and accepted more or less universally.