Top Picks: Slate's Critic-Approved Best Ideas Books of 2023

This article highlights some of the best ideas books of 2023. The books cover a range of topics, including the importance of being "reasonably unreasonable" in debates, the misogyny of popular culture, the transformation of Naomi Wolf, the psychology of caregiving for Alzheimer's patients, the rise of Freudianism in Britain, the evolution of female anatomy, the intertwined history of human civilization and climate change, the devastating forest fire in Fort McMurray, the problem of waste and recycling, the science of history, the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, and the heroic history of vaccination.