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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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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

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
9 Book

Burning the Books

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

We, the Data

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

The World in a Grain

The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Vince Beiser
Riverhead, 2018
9 Book

MoneyBall Medicine

Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market
Harry Glorikian and Malorye Allison Branca
Productivity Press, 2017
8 Book

Woke, Inc.

Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam
Vivek Ramaswamy
Center Street, 2021
9 Book

The Precariat

The New Dangerous Class
Guy Standing
Bloomsbury, 2014
9 Book

There's Nothing Micro about a Billion Women

Making Finance Work for Women
Mary Ellen Iskenderian
MIT Press, 2022