Tag: history

Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale.

It reflects a disregard for historical truth, an aggressive assertion of U.S. superiority, and the continuation of exploitative colonialist practices that harm both the environment and Latin American people.

History’s actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher.

Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four pre-modern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the discovery of an unexpected historical pattern.

Historically, declining empires often provoke denials and delusions that teach their people “hard lessons” and impose on them “hard choices.” That is where we are now.

To understand the present, study the past. 

To leverage and learn from humanity’s history regarding what fostered sustainability in the past, we need to know the outcomes.

The doomed OceanGate submersible offers us many of the same lessons that the 1912 Titanic sinking did.

Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.

How do we shape a democratic future living in a zeitgeist that is tightening its grip across the globe?