Oswald Spengler once said that The Decline of the West could have been given this title, because he was really talking about the coming of the "final forms" of Western Civilization. This paperback anthology of items from John Reilly's Homepage takes Spengler at his word by looking at his ideas from the perspective of the early 21st century. The topics covered include the necessity and ethics of global empire, the exhaustion of modernism, and the contest between Americanism and Tradition for the definition of the final forms. To order directly from the publisher, click on the icon at left, or order through Amazon.

This paperback collection of "Notes on the Cultural History of the 21st Century" shows the millennial imagination at work at every level of late-modern civilization. Though providing important background on the apocalyptic ideologies of the radical Right, the anthology is chiefly concerned to show how the future is being shaped by "normal" millennialism. The book provides a unique perspective on "the Clash of Civilizations" and on environmental ideology. For more information and to order, click on the icon at left.

If you would, maybe you shouldn't. However, this formula is helpful in describing many of the meta-narratives of history found around the world. The Perennial Apocalypse is a cross-cultural and cross-temporal study of models of history considered as a class of story. The book tries to do for doomsday what The Hero with a Thousand Faces did for the myth of the hero. The Perennial Apocalypse is available as an ebook: for more information and to order, click on the icon at left.

This projection of the future into the 27th century uses a simple computer program and even simpler interpretations of the Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and Arnold Toynbee's Study of History. No, this is not a serious exercise, but it does suggest what the future would look like if the modern age really is analogous to the Hellenistic Age. Important years include 2080, 2309, and 2603. The text is available free, online: click on the icon at left.