The Book Club | 7 June 2023 | 0h 48m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Peter Turchin about his book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration. Proposes a scientific theory of history, mapping the underlying forces that have led to the collapse of states from the ancient world to the present day, and warns of very turbulent times ahead.
Dan Snow’s History Hit | 9 December 2020 | 0h 28m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Dan Hoyer and Peter Turchin about their book Figuring Out the Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History. Backgrounds the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics, which uses the tools of complexity science and cultural evolution to study the dynamics of historical empires and modern nation-states. Discusses the implications for America today.