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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
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97/100Author:
Peter Turchin
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
June 13, 2023
From the co-founder of cliodynamics, a new interdisciplinary science of history, offering a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames.
What The Reviewers Say
End Times [is] driven by a deep sense that American democracy is at serious risk. [It] may well be right about this, but [it] then [attaches] these concerns to elaborate meta-historical frameworks that purport to predict optimistic future outcomes rising from the current ashes of polarization and conflict.
Turchin extrapolates certain cyclical trends in this great collected narrative of human hope and human failure..
A compelling analysis of why societies fail.
It’s a nice idea that Turchin has; a useful prism for looking at instability. But as a unifying theory of historical change it is too narrow and deterministic, as most unifying theories of historical change usually are.
