ANCIENT Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Maya, China’s Qing dynasty – these civilizations all shone brightly in their time. Yet, in every case, the glory days were followed by societal collapse. This ...

Societal collapses happen more often than you think, and there’s much we can learn from the past to avoid or, at least, delay another one. This week’s guest on Zero is Luke Kemp, author of Goliath's ...

Adhering to the brand of bad faith agitprop that views — and damns — the world through a chosen narrow lens, The City Dark mounts a case for why “light pollution,” AKA artificial illumination, is a ...

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires. A detail from Samuel Colman’s “The Edge of Doom” (1836-38).Credit...Samuel ...

Telegram founder Pavel Durov warned that France may experience a societal collapse if it continues down its current political trajectory of censorship and regulatory policies during an interview on ...