Will society collapse by 2040? Explore the MIT study predicting a civilization downfall due to overpopulation, resource depletion, and pollution. This thought-provoking analysis takes you through ...

Civilizations rise and civilizations fall. But the greatest and most enduring civilizations can also adapt. Western civilization and Western values are not in decline as much as they are adapting to ...

An Egyptian-American team unearthed a large royal tomb for an unknown king belonging to the mysterious Abydos Dynasty, a ...

THE WORLD’S IRON AGE—William Henry Chamberlin—Macmillan ($3). IDEAS FOR THE ICE AGE—Max Lerner —Viking ($3). To the question that more & more people are asking in the deepening privacy of their own ...

Claims that Harvard no longer teaches Western civilization are wrong. The real threat to the humanities is collapsing student ...

What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human extinction, and even “existential risk”? That ...