CommentUnderstanding why we think the way we do is a hot topic for many of 2025s books that and finding new ways to re-evaluate old truths, says Simon Ing 23 December 2024 The weather outside may be frightful but the new books inside are delighfulLechatnoir/Getty ImagesAn Increasingly divisive politics. Media technologies that reinforce and radicalise every fleeting opinion. An absolute tsunami of conspiracy theories.Out of the noise and anxiety of our current moment comes a slew of new books that may make 2025 the moment humanity turned a corner, and replaced the heat of partisanship and tribalism with enlightened discourse and real debate. Many of them explain why we think the way we do about the world, and show us how we can change our minds without losing them