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Peter Turchin: End Times

The Book Club

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The Unexpected Concept of the Russian Revolution

Samuel Johnson: We find it very hard because of our incumbency to see anything really radical happening until it does. This is why we need a science of history so that we can gather data and calculate things, he says. "When you're building a bridge, you take measurements and then you do calculations," Johnson writes. 'We need to do the same thing to avoid an unintended consequences'

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