Is this the final chapter in the human story? Are we too exhausted to do more than bingewatch and doomscroll? OK, but like it or not, you still have a choice: Throw in the towel and keep sipping lattes . . . or screw up your courage and go down swinging . . . do something.

Issue 166 asks what it means to be alive today, and how we can conjure up a new vibe, a new dream — a new bottom-up way of thinking so dangerous and beautiful that it opens up all the possibilities for governing ourselves in the future.