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

Mr. Blackwood sees these students as “the Navy SEALs of Western civilization, prepared to do the heavy lifting of regeneration. It’s a small beginning, but they go out and carry the flame with them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

We are at an inflection point—an inflection point not only in the history of my nation, but an inflection point in the whole of our civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Such scientific methods, Hoover proclaimed, would assist “the guardians of civilization in the face of the common danger.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The questions that define civilizations don’t always announce themselves cleanly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

For their argument, Schwitzgebel and Pober estimate that at least 1,000 behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial civilizations have existed somewhere in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Human civilizations across the ages have understood this to be an important lesson, which is how gold became the go-to cautionary symbol for greed, vanity, and the hollow existence to which they lead.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The author must understand from firsthand experience a range of human societies, from hunter-gatherer societies to modern space-age civilizations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond