Clash of Civilisations: How Family Shapes the Fault Lines of Global Conflict
Family models, not just civilizations, shape global conflicts. From Western individualism to Eastern collectivism, values clash.
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After the West
The life cycle of Western civilization is coming to an end. Or is it simply a necessary transformation and a search for a new narrative that the liberalized and secularized West needs?
Clash of Civilisations: How Family Shapes the Fault Lines of Global Conflict
Family models, not just civilizations, shape global conflicts. From Western individualism to Eastern collectivism, values clash.
Civilisational Schizophrenia
Europe's leaders speak of civilisation, but can no longer agree on what the term actually means.
Editorial: In Search of the Primeval Myth
The West has lost its founding myth—can a new one rise from the rubble, or is the age of civilisation itself ending?
Das konfuzianische Comeback
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Did someone know about 9/11 in advance?
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Eating insects isn’t the problem. The problem begins when the state starts pushing people to do it
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Beyond Meat was supposed to launch a revolution that would push beef off our plates
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Artificial intelligence is making everything look the same
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Americans don’t want data centers in their backyards
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What if green technologies are actually destroying the nature they are supposed to save?
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Europe’s wind turbine king is back
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Water Looks Like the Perfect Investment
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Europe’s rivers are drying up. And history is emerging from their depths
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Donald Trump wanted to change America. Did he succeed?
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AI may not take our jobs – but it could decide what we think about
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Oil at $100 a barrel no longer automatically means a recession
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Will Europe have enough gas this winter?
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Heatwaves exposed a weakness in green architecture
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Deliberately Not Quite Western
Latin America is not a failed copy of the West: it is a civilisation in its own right, though misread, misgoverned, and misaligned…
World Order Through China’s Eyes
Beijing’s Global Civilisation Initiative is rewriting the playbook for how soft power is applied.
The West and Vico’s Cycles
Western civilisation faces cultural fragmentation. Vico’s cyclical theory might explain its current decline.