Unlike peer nations’ residents, Americans are less accepting of, and concerned by, (especially anthropogenic) climate change. Reinforced Theistic Manifest Destiny theory (RTMD; e.g., Ranney, 2012) explains many such “U.S.exceptionalist” phenomena by combining geopolitical history with six belief constructs: afterlife, deity, nationalism, creation, evolution, and global warming. We assess predic...

As a subject for scholarly commentary and debate, the long relative decline of Britain's industrial economy has an enduring fascination for historians seeking to illuminate its causes. If asked to write a critical review of the "declinist" literature of the last thirty years undergraduate historians would be confronted by an array of competing, sometimes complementary, hypotheses, most of them ...