western writers

Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jared M. Diamond

American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee ; Guns, Germs, and Steel ; Collapse , The World Until Yesterday , and Upheaval . Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology