Publisher’s Description “Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by STUBBORN MINORITIES IMPOSING their TASTES and ETHICS on others.” “YOU can be an INTELLECTUAL yet still be an IDIOT. “EDUCATED PHILISTINES” have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to low-carb diets.” Reviews “ENTITLED MAN WROTE THE BOOK” and “THIS MIGHT BE AMONG THE WORST TYPES OF BOOK” ard “I HAVE NO SKIN IN THIS REVIEW. The idea of the book makes me think about how people used the word exclusive not realizing that they’re of the group the word exclusive applies to. I’d also like to address the fact that the “ethics and tastes” of “minorities” have and always will be a multi-billion dollar industry. These books are evident of that fact regardless of its passive aggressive nature.

Love the writing style and wealth of knowledge without show of knowledge.

So much to absorb.

I am from the middle east and appreciate Nassim’s knowledge of the region. His writing style is not my favorite, and the book has so much redundancy—no actual factual point at the end of each chapter.

Taleb is one of the only modern philosophers worth reading. Love his thinking, and all the reads are deep, profound, and fun to read. A worthy addition to the INCERTO

Great work as always by a no BS author. A must read for anyone that considers themselves successful or hopes to be one day.

This is a book by someone that doesn’t write as well as he thinks he does, about ideas he holds dear without justification beyond ill-fitting anecdotes. A book about a cliche, poorly argued and even more poorly written, I’m sorry to say.

This books is worth reading, if for no other reason than exposing policy makers and others for what they are: unaffected meddlers. In the latter part of the book, I found some of the arguments labored to the point of perhaps being poorly written and confusing. A sentence I need to read four times to comprehend seems to me to be poorly written. While that did not occur in the first several chapters, later on I found myself rereading sentences too frequently. Perhaps the author’s didactic approach to his arguments fly wore me down. Should you read this book? Yes, it’s an interesting treatment of risks and reality that extends the author’s prior ideas. I learned a lot, and the concepts made me stop, and think (rethink?). In my opinion, that’s what a good book should do. But then, other than the purchase, I have no skin in the game.