What’s the Big Idea? Past Readings

2025

• • Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes
  • Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking
  • Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture
  • Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation
  • Thomas Piketty, Nature, Culture and Inequality: A Comparative Historical Perspective
  • Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein, Abundance

2024

• • Benjamin Lorr, The Secret Life of Groceries
  • Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI