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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: Are We Living Through 'End Times'?
Description: Peter Turchin is not like most historians. For starters, he has an unusual background as an evolutionary biologist studying lemmings and mice. He says that analyzing the complexities of the natural world has allowed him to understand the most complex system of all: human society. He has pioneered a field of history that he calls cliodynamics that applies hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of historical data points to a mathematical model in order to understand the present and to predict future trends.Using these tools, Peter and his team published an article in the journal N...