Most older people today are unaware that in their lifetimes the population of the planet has tripled and we have burned nearly 90% of all […] Read More
Category: History
After organizing a successful meeting between blue urban liberals and red conservative rural folk in 2017, journalist Monica Guzman began to see political polarization in […] Read More
Why did Homo sapiens triumph over other Homo species? And then how did we become the dominant species on the planet? Academic Hanno Sauer addresses […] Read More
“Today…every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment […] Read More
Democracy is withering. A majority of people in democracies like America, France and others believe that corruption is widespread in government. How has this come […] Read More
In his book How Economics Explains the World, author Andrew Leigh describes events that affected the course of world history. These range widely from discussions […] Read More
Psychologist and professional grandfather Dr Bob Rich offered this advice to people suffering from climate anxiety: “Do the best you can, then don’t worry”. His […] Read More
With wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, and a looming USA-China conflict over Taiwan, one might ask what factors lead to war especially those that […] Read More
We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and […] Read More
The collapse of society on Easter Island is an oft-repeated cautionary tale of man-made ecocide, which blames an ignorant indigenous population for deforesting the island […] Read More