Society

Here you will find summaries on all kinds of topics that have to do with our societies: trends, analyses, visions, challenges.

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Summaries

9 Book

Awakening
#MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Rachel Vogelstein and Meighan Stone
Public Affairs, 2021
10 Book

Tools and Weapons
The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
Penguin Press, 2019
9 Book

A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
UC Press, 2021
9 Book

Free Speech
A History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob Mchangama
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Trigger Points
Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
Mark Follman
Dey Street, 2022
8 Article

Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.
A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways, for better or worse. Here are 34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come.
Politico Magazine
Politico Magazine, 2020
9 Book

Women & Power
A Manifesto
Mary Beard
Profile Books, 2018
8 Book

Where Did You Get This Number?
A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World
Anthony Salvanto
Simon & Schuster, 2018
9 Book

Burning the Books
A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovenden
Belknap Press, 2020
9 Book

Liars
Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception (Inalienable Rights)
Cass R. Sunstein
Oxford UP, 2021
9 Book

We, the Data
Human Rights in the Digital Age
Wendy H Wong
MIT Press, 2023
8 Book

All Made Up
The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian
Rae Nudson
Beacon Press, 2021