Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“Since the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Thales proclaimed that everything was water, ambitious theorists have sought a single element capable of explaining the physical or social world. For Karl Marx, history unfolded through the dynamics of class struggle. Given our era’s dominance by digital information and computation, it is hardly surprising that Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, argues that not only history but also politics and economics must be understood entirely ‘in terms of information flows.’ For Harari, information is not merely the key to knowledge but also to societal power. Although information can accurately portray reality, more frequently, it serves as a tool for manipulation.” (03/27/25)