New Yorker article on Harari

I read Sapiens and found it interesting, provocative. Then I listened to an article about Harari from the New Yorker from February. It takes 68 minutes to listen to, and is quite a profile of Harari. Turns out he's into Insight meditation. And he convinced the president of Israel to have a vegetarian day in whatever their equivalent to a White House is, which most people find amazing. While he claims there is no scientific evidence for liberal humanism, Steven Pinker thinks he is one. Saying there is no scientific evidence might be a way of saying it is a value. He plays the non-political, but he's clearly of our ilk. He goes off on a retreat every year. He doesn't think it's practical to imagine everyone is going to meditate because he knows how hard it is. He supposedly meditates for an hour every day. He's got a sweet deal as a professor, he doesn't have to do anything but teach 3 classes one semester. He's learned to create the minimum of expectations in his life. Seems pretty cool.