Clay tablets from Pylos in southern Greece reveal a 3,000-year-old tax dispute that uncovers Mycenaean Greece’s legal system.

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.

If we don’t follow the norms that gave us prosperity, security, and freedom, then the system starts to break down.

In His Own Words,” Hanson explains the phenomenon known as a “total systems collapse,” in which a society metaphorically implodes when it casts aside values like common sense and meritocracy and ...

Discover the fall of mainland Greece and the critical importance of Crete as a strategic stronghold. This part follows the evacuation of Allied forces, the buildup of German airborne operations, and ...

Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He’s covered history’s most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the Revolutions and History of Rome podcasts — the latter being a 179 episode, ...

From barbarian invasions to internal decay, this video investigates the dramatic story of the fall of Rome and how it reshaped history forever.

The autumnal equinox arrives on Monday, September 22, 2025, at 2:19 P.M. EDT, bringing with it the end of summer, the beginning of fall and the onset of Libra season. Astronomically, an equinox occurs ...

Twice a year, the sun doesn’t play favorites. Everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal status – at least when it comes to the amount of light and dark that they get. On Monday, we enter our second and ...

There’s a typical mourning period that comes with the debut of a new season, one that hits particularly hard at the end of another glorious summer. The beach umbrellas are put away, the smell of ...

The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses. By Michael S. Roth Michael S. Roth is the ...