And while history doesn't repeat itself, there are recognizable patterns and signals. One pattern is that losers fight back. After World War I, Germany was severely chastised by its European ...

The answer to the question posed in the title is reflected in the very earliest stages of the development of the American consciousness. As historian R. W. B. Lewis stated in his book, The ...

With one line of code we can harness 40 years of world events and compare every moment of every country’s history to every other moment in every other country’s history over those 40 years to ...

Nicholas Shakespeare looks at the future, reviewing Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris In 1776, James Watt described a steam ...