Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin peterturchin.substack.com

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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Do Lemmings Commit Mass Suicide?

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Our Revolution: an Interim Assessment

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Tracking Well-Being by Population Height

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Operation Epic Fury

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Multilevel Selection II

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The Feverish Library

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Civilization without God

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Booms and Busts

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The Controversy over Multilevel Selection

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Unravelling Hallucinations

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Revisiting a 2017 Prediction

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Sick Man Europe

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A Video Illustrating Ideas in "End Times"

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“Persuasively Wrong"

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Structural-Demographic Cycles in Morocco

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Litter in the Streets

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Empirical Cliodynamics: the Use of Proxies

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Why I Don't Comment on Events in Real Time

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2025: The Year in Retrospect

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Cherry-picking Clio

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