HAPPENING

Every age has imagined its last day. Some pictured fire from heaven. Others feared plague, comets, nuclear war, climate collapse, or a computer failure at midnight. The fear changes shape, but the question stays the same: will history end, and if it does, will anyone be judged? That question has shaped religion, politics, science, art, and public fear for thousands of years. Ancient ruins remind us that every civilization has wondered about its own ending. Why the end keeps r