For the most part, history is more complicated and more nuanced than we give it credit for. Hindsight serves to soften and streamline the narrative. Understanding contemporary motivations requires a ...
Maybe we got it all wrong. Maybe civilizations aren’t the problem, as Samuel Huntington warned, but the answer. If so, we should be worried less about them clashing, and start thinking more about how ...
Modern civilization may not have dulled humankind's bloodlust, but living in a large, organized society may increase the likelihood of surviving a war, an anthropology professor reports. Modern ...
As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies ...
Modern societies would be impossible without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. We could have an affluent civilization that provides plenty of food, material comforts, and access to ...
Victor Joecks is a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The triumph of modern feminism has put society on the path to demographic collapse. The U.S. fertility rate dropped to a new low last ...
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise and Fall is now available for purchase. It is the first expansion pack for the turn-based strategy game Civilization VI, the most recent mainline version of the ...
Maybe we got it all wrong. Maybe civilizations aren’t the problem, as Samuel Huntington warned, but the answer. If so, we should be worried less about them clashing, and start thinking more about how ...