That's entirely fair. The Lords of Poverty was written before Graham got into any of his writing on ancient civilizations. In fact I think that the story goes he was visiting a site in Ethiopia (?) for humanitarian work when he stumbled on some temple that got him thinking about ancient civilizations. I stand by using The Lords of Poverty as source material and think everyone should read it. See you in Norway!

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Graham Hancock is one of the sources of your book on the IMF (which was great!). I really don’t buy into his recent «Ancient Apocalypse» work. The logical fallacy here is that it affects how I feel about his earlier work on the IMF (even though they are unrelated). Have you received any well-reasoned pushback on using his work as source material? And what is the most interesting feedback you have reveived on Hidden Repression? Looking forward to OFF25!