Nova Express - The Restored Text

William S. Burroughs

The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs dep...

What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics

Andrew Leigh

Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism is making them worse.   Did you know that you're more likely to die from a catastrophe than in a car crash? The odds that a typical US resident will die from a catastrophic event--for example, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or out-...