Blog / ChangeThis

Reimagining Capitalism and Activism

By Tom C. W. Lin

The Capitalist and the Activist is an attempt to put into words the larger story of activism, capitalism, and social change unfolding around us. It is a hopeful story of promises and perils. It is a story that we all share and can all shape together.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | January 25, 2022

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

By Porchlight

An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food—from where it’s grown to how we buy it—is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior.

Blog / Editor's Choice

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Peter Goodman takes a close look at the robber barons of the modern era, explaining how they have grabbed the gains of globalization and profited off the pandemic, undermined working people, economic stability, and even our very democracy in the process.

Blog / ChangeThis

Ethical Issues & Automation

By Bhaskar Ghosh, Rajendra Prasad, Gayathri Pallail

In today’s world, AI algorithms are being applied to highly sensitive territory. AI systems of the future cannot remain opaque if they have to garner trust from their human users.

Blog / Staff Picks

How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel

Book Review by Emily Porter

Beginning in 2030 and spanning generations beyond, Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark tells the story of humanity trying to live in a world desecrated by an Arctic plague that spreads through contaminated water, changing the world as we know it.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | January 18, 2022

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

By Porchlight

From the New York Times global economics correspondent, a rollicking and revelatory exposé of the global billionaire class who increasingly control the world.

Blog / News & Opinion

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee is the 2021 Porchlight Business Book of the Year

By Dylan Schleicher

Heather McGhee's brilliant and beautifully written book examines the origins of the zero-sum narrative that is used to divide us as individuals and undermine us economically, and asks us to embrace instead the power and possibilities of the Solidarity Dividend.

Blog / News & Opinion

The 2021 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry

By Porchlight

This year, we are using our annual Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry to honor the amazing man, mentor, and friend who the award is named for.