Fighting fake news, tribalism, and doomscrolling with 400-year-old wisdom

How do you survive an age where truth is optional, outrage is currency, and stupidity has gone pro?

You bring Shakespeare—wry, sharp, and unsparing.

"How Shakespeare Can Save the World" is a work of literary nonfiction that uses Shakespeare’s plays—and the voice of King Lear’s Fool—to diagnose our era’s most contagious disease: organized, weaponized stupidity.

From algorithmic echo chambers to populist theatrics, from climate inertia to the quiet normalization of absurdity, our crises aren’t new. Only the costumes have improved.

The 21st century isn’t a brave new world. It’s an old play in a shinier theatre. Here, Shakespeare becomes an X-ray—exposing our modern cast of power-drunk Macbeths, whispering Iagos, and Hamlets paralysed at the edge of collapse.

Part satire, part cultural criticism, and part philosophical reflection, the book argues that the roots of our crises are not technological, but deeply human—and that the cure for our chaos isn’t more data, but stories that refuse to lie.

For readers drawn to sharp, idea-driven nonfiction, unconventional narrative voices, and books that challenge more than they reassure.