1. Icebound: The Story of Shackleton's Antarctic Voyage
(Archive/Features)

... and currents.” The Incredible Journey Shackleton now had the crew settled on Elephant Island, but ultimate safety was by no means assured. The party was still separated from civilization by the violent ...

2. Global Warming Murder-Suicide: Why Didn't Al Gore Save Them?
(News/Blog)

... large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it." But, he said, "the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every ...

3. Bad Ideas for Saving the Planet
(Archive/Features)

... How times change. Now, to fight the civilization ending, all encompassing menace of climate change, at least one scientist has proposed pumping extra sulfur into the atmosphere. Australian scientist ...

4. The Lessons of Ancient Rome
(Archive/Reviews)

... diplomat, Petrarch saw in Rome the ruins of a civilization that seemed to tower above his own. Impressed by the majesty of the glory that was ancient Rome, Petrarch spent his life recovering and then reading ...

5. Religion and Civilization
(Archive/Features)

Religion, said Bertrand Russell, is "a disease born of fear and [is] a source of untold misery to the human race."1 Russell's opinion has gained wide currency as the perception that Western civilization ...

6. Freedom and Prosperity
(Archive/Features)

... John Adams, it was important to work for liberty so that all the blessings of culture and civilization might be realized by future generations. Writing to Abigail, his wife, Adams explained: “I must study ...