If any of that sounds good to you, read on: Here are the books I’m most excited about this month. It Could Be Otherwise: Science in the Age of Uncertainty by Stuart FiresteinHachette Book GroupAdvertisementIt’s bleak out there. It feels like science is being attacked on a number of fronts, all while the world burns around us. He paints science as an agent of freedom, and illuminates a path that makes redemption through science feel possible. AdvertisementThe Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill LeporePenguin Random HouseIn this book, historian Jill Lepore describes how technology has corroded democracy itself.