Topics

All essays on this portal are grouped into several overlapping sets that we believe are, in one way or another, interconnected:

Second Foundation

Our essays about psychohistory: what it might look like, what it could achieve, and what its limitations would be

Anthropological and sociological research into the foundations of human evolution and biology that underpin modern society

A discussion of recent research exploring how Europe emerged as the dominant global power in modern times and gave rise to the Industrial Revolution

Reviews of the latest political science research on the modern global order and the United States' struggle to maintain it

Examining the social structures that fragment humanity from within—religious belief, national identity, class hierarchy, and gender roles

Essays on topics not directly related to the portal’s main theme, but still worthy of discussion