The Surveillance Bargain: Trading Privacy for Convenience
How billions traded invisible privacy for immediate convenience—and what we lost in the exchange
The Language Emergency: How English Dominance Erases Cultures
Seventy years of English dominance is reshaping human knowledge itself—and the losses are permanent.
The Pension Time Bomb: Why Retirement Promises Can't Be Kept
The retirement you were promised was designed for a world that no longer exists
The Social Media Revolution: How Platforms Overthrew Governments
From connecting friends to toppling dictators, social platforms revealed power dynamics we're still struggling to understand
The Forever Student: Why Education No Longer Guarantees Success
How credential inflation transformed education from ladder to treadmill—and what that means for anyone still climbing.
The Tax Haven Web: How Wealth Hides from Governments
A parallel financial system evolved over decades, letting the wealthy play by different rules than everyone else
The Debt Trap: How Borrowing Became Modern Colonialism
International loans replaced military occupation as the tool of control—here's how debt became the quiet empire of our era.
The Smartphone Trap: How Pocket Computers Rewired Humanity
How a device meant to connect us became the most successful attention-capture system in human history—and what we can do about it
The Mental Health Pandemic: Why Modern Life Makes Us Sick
How prosperity and technology dismantled the social foundations of psychological wellbeing, creating a crisis no pill can fully solve
The Cryptocurrency Mirage: Why Digital Money Failed Its Promise
How a technology designed to democratize money ended up concentrating wealth, devastating the environment, and handing governments new tools of control.
The Memory Wars: How Countries Fight Over Their Past
Discover why textbooks, statues, and algorithms are weapons in an invisible war over what we remember—and who controls tomorrow.
The Revenge of Geography: Why Location Still Determines Destiny
Geographic position quietly shapes national destiny more than politics or policies—and climate change is redrawing the winning lottery tickets.
The Forever Wars: Why Some Conflicts Never End
Discover the hidden systems that keep conflicts burning for generations while others end in years.
The Antibiotic Apocalypse: How Medicine's Greatest Triumph Became Its Greatest Threat
How 70 years of antibiotic overuse in farms and hospitals created bacteria that may soon kill more people than cancer
The Fertility Crash: How Birthrates Reshape Global Power
Discover why falling birthrates globally are creating the greatest power shift since colonization ended
The Democracy Recession: Why Freedom Stopped Spreading
Discover how authoritarians mastered the internet, elections became tools for dismantling democracy, and why freedom lost its appeal to billions worldwide
The City Century: How Megacities Became More Powerful Than Nations
Discover why your mayor might matter more than your president in shaping your economic future and political reality
The Invisible Empire: How American Culture Conquered Without Armies
Discover how movies, burgers, and English conquered hearts worldwide more effectively than any military campaign in history
The Water Wars: How Rivers Create International Crises
Discover why control over rivers and aquifers shapes international relations and threatens global stability more than oil ever did
The Oil Curse: Why Natural Resources Make Countries Poorer
Discover why oil-rich nations struggle with poverty while resource-poor countries thrive, and how some nations successfully escaped this paradox
The Revenge of Religion: Why Secularization Theory Failed
Discover how religious movements reshaped global politics after experts predicted faith would disappear, revealing modernity's most misunderstood force
The Great Convergence: Why Poor Countries Started Catching Up
Discover how developing nations compressed centuries of progress into decades and why some succeed while others remain trapped
Why Borders Keep Moving: The Unfinished Business of Nation-Building
Discover why most world borders are younger than your grandparents and what historical patterns reveal about tomorrow's map changes