Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of “Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of ...

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland? Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August 2021. This ...

“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of ...

Recent emphasis on climate science has impacted how we think about ancient civilizations. Long-held theories about the collapse of ancient civilizations are starting to change. Climate change wasn't ...

New research is warning that the most likely outcome is that human civilization is poised for collapse. As The Guardian reports, a sweeping new historical survey that analyzes 5,000 years and the ...

The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have long divided this country, including abortion rights, immigration, ...

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 ...

Power struggles? Drought? Overpopulation? Whatever happened to the Maya remains a mystery—with clues hidden in the jungle. Temple in TikalAbove the thick tree roots of the Petén jungle rises Temple V ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization. In an article recently featured in ...