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 ...

In 1906, President Nicholas Murray Butler—the namesake of Butler Library—declared in the Annual Report of the President: “Columbia University is a Christian Institution.” During the years following ...

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 ...

Modern civilization may not have dulled humankind's bloodlust, but living in a large, organized society may increase the likelihood of surviving a war, an anthropology professor reports. Modern ...

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 ...

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise and Fall is now available for purchase. It is the first expansion pack for the turn-based strategy game Civilization VI, the most recent mainline version of the ...

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 ...

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 ...