Essay

The Transparency Society

Han’s book, written in 2013, points to what has become increasingly evident since then. The Transparency Society is a lucid essay on transparency, which is becoming ever more absolute, driven by the forces...

The Invention of Creativity

It is an ambitious essay that analyses how creativity has shifted from being an exceptional quality—associated with artistic genius—to becoming an omnipresent social mandate. Throughout the book, it sharply...

How to Talk to a Science Denier

It is a brief and combative essay that arises from a very specific concern: the growing social rejection of well-established scientific truths, from climate change to vaccines. Lee McIntyre does not write...

Radical Uncertaninty

It is a powerful essay that changes the way of thinking because it dismantles the illusion that we can reduce life, business, or politics to exact numbers.

Kay and King argue that most of what...

The First Society

Everyone seems to agree that Western civilization is in trouble. The problem is that no one agrees on what has gone wrong or what to do about it. Some think we have too much government, some not enough;...

The Identity Trap

It is a political and intellectual essay that engages directly with one of the most tense debates of our time: the primacy of identity versus universal values. The author begins from an undeniable fact—...

The Benedict Option

It is an essay that starts from a strong diagnosis which is, to a large extent, accurate: the West has ceased to be culturally Christian. This is not only about laws or politics, but about something deeper...