In David and Goliath, I’ve tried to persuade you to see the world as Konrad Kellen saw it—to look at the shepherd and the giant and understand where power and advantage really lie. It matters, in a hundred specific and practical ways. It affects the decisions we make as parents, the schools we choose to attend, and the way we fight wars and battle crime. It shapes the way we understand creativity and entrepreneurship and the way the oppressed seek to take on bullies and tyrants. We aren’t very good at confronting these lessons about power. Think of all the extraordinary things that had to
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