End Times
According to Scripture

It is fashionable to talk of the 2020s as a time of upset, instability, turmoil, revolution and war, all without any factual basis, just gut feeling. What is really shocking is that science and math show that it is all true. In End Times, Peter Turchin describes how countries come to this point pred......more

I've been thinking a lot about Turchin's concept of "elite overproduction" since reading this book. This is the idea that societies on the verge of mass upheaval first produce a surplus of ambitious, often wealthy, always college-educated elites, and those strivers who do not find their respected pl......more

Prior to Covid I would have told you that Berlin was one of my favorite metropolises anywhere in the norther hemisphere. Experienced as a foreign mit nur ein bisschen worte under my belt, I found the city to be affordable, exciting and tinged by a thin layer of the grime that so famously characteriz......more

Cum explicăm ascensiunea lui Trump? Majoritatea cărților se concentrează pe factorul economic. Este "revolta muncitorului american alb". În ultimele decenii, în SUA, productivitatea economică a tot crescut, în timp ce salariile muncitorilor au stagnat. Cauzele sunt diverse, de la mutarea fabricilor p......more

I made the mistake of buying this book after thumbing through it and thinking it looked interesting. What a disappointment. It claims to be about some grand, scientific theory of history named “cliodynamics” but this superficial book is remarkably free of analysis, statistics or deep insight. Chapte......more