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Stairway to Heaven I
In Today's China
May 3
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Cliodynamica Substack: A Year in Review
Doing Well So Far...
May 1
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Cliodynamics of End Times II
Coin Hoards Give Us a Quantitative Proxy for Instability Dynamics
Apr 26
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Below the Surface: the Structural-Demographic Roots of the Current Political Crisis
A blog post I wrote in 2013
Apr 19
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Dissecting Corpses of Past Empires
Why History is Relevant to Our Current Predicament
Apr 15
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The Deep Roots of Today’s Geopolitics
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Sick Man Europe
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Revolt of the Credentialed Precariat
Nov 7, 2025
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The Structural-Demographic State of America
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Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin
Ancient history and today's politics through the lens of Cliodynamics ("history as science"). Recent books: End Times (2023), The Great Holocene Transformation (2025).
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