Looking ahead to the year 20202025
Plus: Which matters more, a first or last impression? (#540)
Small change, big impact
Plus: the horse farm turned global vaccine supplier. (#539)
Where the end is real
Plus: How AI ruins decision making and why you should talk to former friends. (#538)
The Enshittification of American Power
Plus: Alien life and the last words of a dying glacier (#537)
The fire of human aspiration
Plus: Feminist exhaustion, the invention of the wheel and behind the scenes with an intimacy coördinator (#536)
See the dark world
+ Fun new laws to create chaos, and how we'll lose control of AI (#535)
4.5 Million Children
Plus: Why we need more taste and less cynicism (#534)
44 books curious minds wished they'd discovered sooner
Special books issue, curated by you.
The Fascist Playbook
Plus: 30 minutes with a stranger and how artificial intelligence will make us better humans (#533)
Yet weirdly, life goes on
Plus: Questions worth asking in uncertain times. (#532)
An ode to craft
Plus: The power of empathy and the tragedy of prevention (#531)
Special Books Edition
What's a book you wished you discovered sooner?