but in this case, we get a broad but not inaccurate view of how things were. My social studies teachers could lecture about theocracies and schisms all day, but in a handful of pages, Asimov gave me a much more memorable appreciation for how a powerful priestly caste could interfere with an ambitious ruler’s plans.

Absolutely phenomenal amounts of missing the point here as Williams takes the nuclear priests at face value and believes Asimov is speaking about the past instead of reading them as a more modern metaphor for i.e. the press or social media.