Jared Diamond's Vanity Project

Over the decades, academic scholarship, with its jargon and narrowness, has grown both impenetrable and unenlightening to general readers. Few academics even attempt to look at the big picture or to render their prose intelligible to the public at large. As a result, much contemporary scholarship requires intermediaries, popularizers, and translators to the broader public.

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