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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

Awakening

#MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Rachel Vogelstein and Meighan Stone
Public Affairs, 2021
9 Book
Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
UC Press, 2021
9 Book

Free Speech

A History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob Mchangama
Basic Books, 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

Paved Paradise

How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
Penguin Press, 2023
9 Podcast
Salman Rushdie and Matt Galloway
CBC News, 2024
9 Book

Trigger Points

Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
Mark Follman
Dey Street, 2022
9 Book

Women & Power

A Manifesto
Mary Beard
Profile Books, 2018
9 Book

Liars

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

The Precariat

The New Dangerous Class
Guy Standing
Bloomsbury, 2014
9 Book

Burning the Books

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