Episode 78
Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (Peter Turchin)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
January 10, 202026m 26s
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Show Notes
I am skeptical of the art of predicting the future based on the past, but Peter Turchin offers a compelling theory in this 2016 book—including predicting that 2020 will be a very bad year. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats, can be found here.)