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Parents today are terrified on behalf of their kids, and for good reason. In the blink of an eye, our kids will be adults facing more serious threats than we ever did—climate change, gun violence, political polarization, and disinformation, to name a few. We're not going to be able to solve all the intractable problems of the world before our kids grow up—so how are we to prepare them for an impossibly complex and scary future? Award-winning science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer battled insomnia night after night, her thoughts spiraling around this exact question.

Socrates is condemned by the gods of Olympus to perpetual incarnations to atone for his suicide and to complete a mission he left unfulfilled in Ancient Greece. We meet him at the cusp of the 21st Century in the LAST CHANCE SALOON where he holds court in a final effort to redeem himself and to correct the ill-fated impressions of THE REPUBLIC. This utopian novel about the ideal society was inspired by Socrates and written by his pupil Plato. More than any other philosophical treatise, THE REPUBLIC, and its notion of the philosopher king was twisted and misapplied by the tyrants of history. ...