civilization

An Austrian archduke’s visit to Sarajevo in 1914 triggered the war that nearly destroyed European civilization.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Five days after I received the message about Pete Heseth, I returned to civilization to find that very little had changed in my absence.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

The thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it—the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride—is the heart of great civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Ask one of those AI agents that isn’t plotting to take down civilization and boil us all in a giant tub of bacon grease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

I spent our year in Kilanga thinking of civilization as lying downstream from us, since that was the way the boats went to Banningville.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

I recently watched a documentary about the fall of the Bronze Age civilizations.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The world’s two most populous nations saw themselves as ancient civilizations humiliated by industrialized Western powers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Contemporary nations like Iran, Armenia, and Egypt can lay claim to being built on very old civilizations, but you could point out discontinuities and lapses in sovereignty in their histories that complicate the argument.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026

Nothing of the galaxies, stars, planets, lifeforms or civilizations evolved in the previous incarnation of the universe oozes into the cusp, flutters past the Big Bang, to be known in our present universe.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan