Before I go
Advice from a father to his children and grandchildren, like a testament before he dies. In this book, he distills all the wisdom of his life into a series of letters to his children about what really...
Essay
Living in Wonder
It offers a reflection on the loss of the sense of mystery in contemporary Western culture. It argues that modern human beings have reduced reality to what is material and quantifiable, thereby...
Misbelief
It analyzes how perfectly intelligent and reasonable people can come to believe ideas that are manifestly false and, over time, become trapped in them. The author argues that this phenomenon is usually not...
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...
Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times
It is a brief essay with a combative tone that delves directly into one of the most visible—and at the same time most confusing—phenomena of the present: the transformation of Christianity into a light...
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...
Cultural Christians in the Early Church
It is a historical-religious essay that seeks to dismantle an overly idealized image of the early Church. Nadya Williams argues that, from the earliest centuries, many Christians lived a faith mixed with...
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;...