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A Further Inquiry 2: Secular Humanism, AI, Global Politics, Public Health, Relationships, and Human Rights (PDF)
Publication Date: October, 2026; Edition: 1st; Formats: EPUB, Apple Books, PDF, Kindle.
ISBN: 978-1-0673505; Document Word Count: 107,200 Language: English.
Foreword: Mathew Giagnorio and Khadija Khan.
A Further Inquiry 2: Secular Humanism, AI, Global Politics, Public Health, Relationships, and Human Rights is a wide-ranging interview-and-commentary collection by Scott Douglas Jacobsen that treats contemporary public life not as a sequence of isolated controversies but as an interdependent field of moral, scientific, technological, cultural, and civic questions. Across interviews, essays, and analytical reflections with figures including Eru Hiko-Tahuri, Thomas Westenholz, Javier Palomarez, Christopher Louis, Patricia Bathurst, Blanka Molnar, Kan Yan, Dr. Gail Dines, Emma Hathorn, Jared Navarre, Stephen Frost, Caroline Geraghty, Irina Tsukerman, Professor Gordon Guyatt, Mitchell DiRaimondo, Ashraf Amin, Akin Opatola, Omima Jabal, Eddie Thomas, Michael Sapienza, Sam Fankuchen, Alex Craiu, and others, the volume moves through Māori atheism, secular humanism, relationship therapy, dating culture, global wars, North American trade, Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, Afghan journalism, public health, colorectal cancer, evidence-based medicine, AI and Gen Z careers, blockchain finance, Nigerian real estate, volunteer technology, academic freedom, intelligent design creationism, misinformation, and the fragile institutions needed for informed democratic life. The book’s governing insight is that inquiry becomes meaningful only when sympathy is disciplined by evidence: cultural belonging is not the same as supernatural belief, technological acceleration is not the same as wisdom, political certainty is not the same as truth, and moral urgency is not a substitute for careful method. What unifies the volume is a civic-scientific realism toward a disordered century: the world contains ingenuity, resilience, public service, cross-cultural courage, therapeutic repair, and scientific humility, but also propaganda, institutional fragility, commercialized intimacy, health inequity, war, pseudoscience, and interpretive drift. In that sense, A Further Inquiry 2 reads as both documentary record and public-intellectual map — part archive of contemporary voices, part humanist brief for why evidence, dignity, pluralism, transparency, and independent critical thought remain indispensable if democratic societies are to understand themselves rather than merely react to the noise around them.
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