What we are reading

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.

The bestselling author examines the groundbreaking work of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her team in developing CRISPR, a revolutionary tool for DNA editing that promises to cure diseases and enhance health. The narrative raises significant moral questions about genetic manipulation in the evolving life-science revolution.

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Timothy Snyder On Freedom

Timothy Snyder explores the true essence of freedom as a commitment essential for flourishing democracies. He critiques the notion of freedom as mere absence from state control, advocating instead for a proactive approach where individuals collaboratively strive for prosperous futures. This historical perspective highlights evolving concepts of freedom and governance.

Trump and Political Philosophy.

This book reexamines valuable insights from historical and modern thinkers on statesmanship, leadership, and tyranny, particularly in light of Donald Trump’s unexpected rise. It explores how democratic tendencies can lead to demagoguery and investigates the relationship between virtue and statesmanship through the perspectives of philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli.

We Are Electric

Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing—its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer. You may …

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The Age of AI and Our Human Future

By Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be used in every field of human endeavor. Two months ago, we published a column written entirely by AI.* In the preface of this remarkable book, the authors state that AI “is …

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Capitalism after Covid

Luis Garicano This book is a carefully edited transcription of a series of interviews with top economistson the future of capitalism that I conducted between March 2020 and February 2021and which appeared on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. I have edited the originaltranscripts to remove any outdated references (eliminating, for instance, issues such asthe arrival …

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Horizontal Vertigo

“A Chronicle of Mexico City and Its Multitudes” is the title of a review by Rubén Gallo for the New York Times*. And so he goes, “Mexico City, a vast megalopolis of over 20 million, founded 500 years ago and erected on what was once …

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My Readings 2020

Photo: The Jay Walker library on PriceyPads.com Luis Rubio I ended the year reading a book nearly unique in its genre and extraordinary in its transcendence: the history of two revolutionaries as seen by their daughter. Daughter of Revolutionaries, by Laurence Debray, tells the story of her parents prior to her birth and throughout her life, and …

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