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 ...
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 ...
Starting fall 2020, students entering the School of General Studies with under 30 credits will be required to take Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization if they have not already ...
Generations of Columbia College students have been introduced to the philosophy that shaped the Western world through the Core Curriculum course Contemporary Civilization. In the spring of 2021, I ...
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 ...
THE prison door opens, light streams in, and a harsh voice says: “You are free. You can go!” “Free?” exclaims the prisoner. “What do you mean, free? Where am I to go?” “You are released, the door is ...
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 ...
Lester Brown, president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute, argues for an aggressive increase in renewable energy production, better energy-efficiency standards and a return to human-centered ...
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