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title: "Berlusconi and post-truth politics, the Rojava experiment, and the future of humanity"
date: "2017-04-03T12:18:15+01:00"
modified: "2017-04-03T12:18:15+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2017/04/03/berlusconi-and-post-truth-politics-the-rojava-experiment-and-the-future-of-humanity/"
post_id: 6637
categories: ["Uncategorised"]
---

# Berlusconi and post-truth politics, the Rojava experiment, and the future of humanity

1\. [What Silvio Berlusconi tells us about “post-truth” politics](/articles/5163/what-silvio-berlusconi-tells-us-about-post-truth-politics)

Donald Trump’s populism has a striking precedent. Giovanni Tiso looks at what we can learn from the Berlusconi era.

2\. [The Rojava experiment](/articles/5160/the-rojava-experiment)

Behind the frontlines in Syria, a self-governing Kurdish region is making a radical attempt at gender equality. Rahila Gupta reports from Rojava.

3\. [Why physics isn’t dead](/articles/5168/why-physics-isnt-dead)

Relativity and quantum theory help us make sense of the universe – but, Marcus Chown writes, physics still has huge mysteries left to unravel.

4\. [How to give better](/articles/5079/how-to-give-better)

Toby Lichtig asks: if you donate money to charity, should your decisions be a matter for the head or the heart?

5\. [Will progress kill humanism?](/articles/5161/will-progress-kill-humanism)

Yuval Noah Harari’s new book explores the idea that scientific knowledge might one day undermine democratic values, writes Rory Fenton.

*[Previous selection of long-reads](/articles/5162/derrida-vs-the-rationalists-truth-in-the-age-of-bullshit-and-the-politics-of-humanism)*

*[More on our Spring issue – out now](/articles/5151/age-of-extremes-the-spring-2017-new-humanist)*