Sampler: Weapons of Reason

Picking up the prizes for both ‘Launch of the Year’ and ‘Best Use of Illustration’ in last year’s Stack awards, London-based Weapons of Reason is one of our favourite titles.

Through beautiful illustration and in-depth yet accessible writing, it tackles some of the most complex issues the world faces today. The first two issues focused on global warming and megacities respectively, and this third issue looks at the problems faced by the world’s over-65s, examining the ways in which we’ll have to change our society and culture to adapt to an ageing global population.

Exploring the subject of growing old from many different angles, it includes an investigation into sex and sexuality in Britain’s elderly population, by gender, race and sexual orientation; it makes the case for letting robots look after us in later life; and it visits the Colombian town plagued by early-onset Alzheimer’s.

Weapons of Reason was our fastest-selling magazine so far, so if this sounds like a magazine for you, head over to our Sampler page now to pick up a copy. As always you get 10% off plus free shipping to the UK, US and Europe (heavily subsidised anywhere else).