28 Feb 2026 - 12:10am

Lord of the Flies is wrong about humanity We aren’t naturally cruel

Terry Eagleton

04.01

Why our cities should be sacred Utilitarian city-making is failing us

Nicholas Boys Smith

10.08

Stop comparing the West to Rome Hysterical parallels mask our true weakness

Alexander Poots

08.07

The shadow of Pax Romana The fragility of the greatest empire haunts us

Tom Holland

01.05

Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation We are living in an age of reductionism

Iain McGilchrist

22.12

Why Occultists don’t believe in progress W.B. Yeats's 'A Vision'

John Michael Greer

05.08

The Greek myth has been crushed Our pride and arrogance is merely a facade

Yanis Varoufakis

29.12

It’s not the end of the world Fantasies of decline can make you powerless

Oliver Bateman

18.11

This is how civilisations collapse It is far from Hollywood's vision of Hell

Aris Roussinos

11.11

What the poppy really means The War was followed by an elite backlash against civilisation

Mary Harrington

19.07

How the sun could wipe us out A burst of plasma would set in motion a devastating cascade of failures

Bret Weinstein