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Vision reviews Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy and John Keane’s The New Despotism. In the wake of the contentious 2020 US presidential election, their message is sobering.

What’s the best way to cope with a pandemic?

“Truth is fallen in the street,” an ancient prophet told his people. He could just as easily have been talking about today.

Blamed for all sorts of bad behavior, a long-maligned hormone is being reappraised.

Let’s put away the airbrush and take a closer look at this person we call the “self”—and why we think it needs an airbrush in the first place.

Vision interviews Italian philosopher and academic Donatella Di Cesare, author of two recent books addressing conditions that threaten the global status quo.

We are by nature focused first on self. Until we change that, the world will never work for all of us.

How and why do people convince themselves to view others as less than human? Vision reviews David Livingstone Smith’s On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It.

Cannabidiol (CBD) products, derived from marijuana, are increasingly popular. Do they work, and are they safe?

Vision reviews Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes, in which author James Mumford proposes a way out of the political trenches that today divide the world into “sides.”

Vision reviews Donatella Di Cesare’s 2020 book Resident Foreigners, in which she proposes a new philosophy of migration.

Are border walls the best way to ensure safety from outside forces?

Pandemics like COVID-19 were predicted, though few took notice. Where do we go from here?

Ideologies are about what we choose to believe. In Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology, the author explores the past and current political-economic choices we’ve made.

What’s the origin of algorithms? And what might their nature tell us about our own nature?

Millions of people now use assisted reproductive technologies to have children. How will IVF and embryo screening affect the future of family and society?

The plotlines of popular superhero movies may influence us more than any political broadcast ever could.

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