Why History and Cultural Evolution Are Natural Allies
This evening I am meeting with a group of historians, mostly specializing in the study of Byzantium. The topic of…
This evening I am meeting with a group of historians, mostly specializing in the study of Byzantium. The topic of…
It is strange to actually live in a society experiencing a structural-demographic crisis, after studying many examples of such crises…
Kate Kirby and I have organized a symposium on databases in Cultural Evolution for the first annual meeting of the…
I have returned from my African vacation back to the ugly reality (which seems to be getting uglier every day).…
I grew up in Russia and for the first 20 years of my life I never tasted a chili pepper.…
Yesterday Nick Hanauer published an important article on Politico, To My Fellow Plutocrats: You Can Cure Trumpism. I agree with…
When I visited Vienna for the first time many years ago, I remember experiencing a feeling of “cognitive dissonance.” On…
Earlier this year I was asked to serve on a Cultural Evolution Society committee tasked with developing a strategy for…
Today is the second and final round of presidential elections in France. The two contenders are Emmanuel Macron and Marine…
It’s been a long haul. Six years ago we launched the project that we eventually named Seshat: Global History Databank.…
Following a lead from Mark Koyama’s twitter I arrived at the blog of Scott Summer, where I learned that heterodoxy…
Part I here. One of the most interesting passages in Listen, Liberal is Frank’s characterization of the Republicans as the…
Ironically, it used to be the crazy fringe on the Right that were the breeding grounds for conspiracy theories (“birthers”,…
A senior colleague from my ecology days wrote to me with a request for a PDF reprint of an article…