The alarming rise of a power that knows no borders, and how we resist
31 October 2018
Rule-breaking technology is challenging the evidence base on which all functioning societies depend. Two books explore the problem and how to fight back
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Enlightenment now: The rise and fall of progress
19 March 2018
Steven Pinker argues for optimism and Enlightenment values in his latest book, but there are some serious flaws in his argument
Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times
17 January 2018
Fully embracing our connectedness with the biosphere will take rethinking how we see our objects and a new legal framework, argue two new books
The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
4 October 2017
Settled agriculture didn't spawn the first states. Two new books help expose the real drivers, the pressures on marginalised people – and what they can teach us
Learning to be fair: Lessons from the deep past
26 July 2017
While Thomas Piketty's bestseller fuelled a major rethink on economics and inequality, creating change is tough – and may depend on reimagining hunter-gatherer societies
Can we count on utopian dreamers to change the world?
27 June 2017
Offsetting social problems posed by financial overheating and tech disruption puts utopian ideas such as basic income centre stage, argue two new books
