Category: civilisation

Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’: Still Important, Still Relevant

The year 1969 is one to remember in the history of American television. “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” premiered that year, and its madcap antics transformed TV comedy. Other beloved series still remembered today, like “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” and “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color,” entranced audiences as well. In January of that year, in what is…


3, 2, 1 … Timber! A Philosopher’s Take on the Collapse of Our Civilization

Commentary The clock seems to be ticking. Growing disparities in wealth, a housing and gas crisis, transhumanism galloping over the horizon, heroized incivility, and the constant threat of viruses, the “cures” for which may be worse than the diseases. Global politics feels eerily apocalyptic these days and, in our own little worlds, many of us…