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The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
By Robert Wright
Evolution has been building toward something — and we’re not going to like what it is.
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
By Mary Beard
An erudite exploration of antiquity’s allure.
We’ve long been trying (and failing) to vanquish our worse angels.
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
By Michael Pollan
Are we aware enough to grasp awareness?
One Aladdin Two Lamps
By Jeanette Winterson
A mesmerizing treatise on better living inspired by an ancient Arabic tale.
Orwell’s Ghosts
By Laura Beers
What an astute author from the past might say about our murky present.
Is a River Alive?
By Robert Macfarlane
A poetic yet serious consideration of waterways and us.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad
An astonishing assessment of our coming moral reckoning on Palestine.
