modernity

"Though the Assad-era constitutions formally proclaimed political freedoms… our experience of political modernity came in the form of shells falling on our heads, while our bodies were laid bare in detention camps," he tells me.

In this insightful and engaging international bestseller, Harari discusses how we got to where we are, showing readers how even our species’ imperfections defined modernity and shaped our planet.

It was a banner for those who reject modernity, for those who dream of a world ruled by “traditional values” and authoritarian strongmen.

In the French Republic’s revolutionary motto of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, which cracked open modernity, brotherhood’s place in ideas of freedom and social equality gets examined.

But the problem may go even deeper, to a more profound issue with tactical modernity - and Guardiola may already be working on a two-pronged fix.