Keon West - The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet (2025) {352pp} [Goodreads link]
Racism has been on the table before, and we judged it to be an interesting subject. This is a recently published work from a professor of Social Psychology at The University of London. Perhaps a bit closer to our quarters than books focusing on specific American problems.
David DeSteno - How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion (2021) {256pp} [Goodreads link]
This book was mentioned in another book I just read (The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt). I for one have been interested in the topic for a while but haven't really found a book that looked inviting enough. Could this be something?
Nathan H. Lents - The Sexual Evolution (2025) {336pp} [Goodreads link]
The author has also written Human Errors (which is unknown to me). I happened to just stumble upon this title and added it to the list as a fun follow-up to the book we just read. According to reviews it's somewhat lighthearted and may be more of a fun read than actually insightful.
David Spiegelhalter - The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck (2024) {482pp} [Goodreads link]
A new take on uncertainty and how to think about it. Spiegelhalter is one of the UK's most distinguished statisticians, and he’s also one of academia’s best communicators (he’s professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge). His aim in this book is to impose some intellectual order on a subject area that is rife with incomprehension, imprecision, contradiction and creative obfuscation. Should definitely be an interesting read.