Still Searching for Solidarity
Iconoclast Sarah Schulman pulls from her decades of activism to present a passionate testimony on living a life of solidarity.
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Should Heartland Cities Become Tech Hubs?
Urbanist Nicholas Lalla offers a playbook for tech-led economic development in midsize cities, avowing that inclusive growth can offset the worsening wealth inequities that the tech sector has helped generate.
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The Sweet Spot of Discomfort
D. Christopher Kayes offers a compassionate, albeit slim, guide to resilience-building for leaders.
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Reinventing Corporate Sustainability
In Terrible Beauty, Auden Schendler argues that by focusing on incremental rather than systemic change, the corporate sustainability movement has played into the fossil-fuel industry’s hands.
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A Blueprint for Liberation
Decolonize Design founder Aida Mariam Davis challenges settler-colonialist paradigms to offer a new pathway to freedom for Black, Indigenous, and oppressed peoples.
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The Problem With AI Is Us
AI does not herald the end of humanity—or it doesn’t have to, philosopher Shannon Vallor argues in The AI Mirror, if we decide to change its use and design.
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The Great Outsourcing of Government
In The Tech Coup, former politician turned AI policy analyst Marietje Schaake warns that governments have ceded too much power to Silicon Valley—to the detriment of the public good.
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Lessons on Effective Connection
In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg presents an actionable guide to better communication, albeit one without groundbreaking insight.
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Making Sense of Wicked Problems
In Long Problems, Thomas Hale contends that effective political solutions to climate change are vexed by the issue of coordinating policies over protracted time horizons.
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Capitalizing on Care
Premilla Nadasen’s Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism demonstrates how the labor of caring is a site of economic extraction.