"For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people."
- Yuval Noah HarariIsraeli author and historian Yuval Noah Harari is renowned for his ability to relate historical trends to current events. He examines how people have perceived authority throughout history in one of his books. His viewpoint contradicts the conventional wisdom that held that divine entities bestowed …