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When there are too many elites in a society, competition for power makes existing problems worse. Francisco Goya / Wikimedia

History repeats itself. That’s bad news for the 2020s

The 2020s promise to be a decade of mounting strain. But will these years be a story of spiralling decline or triumph over adversity?
Revolution and war: is it all just a little bit of history repeating? blprnt_van

Cliodynamics: can science decode the laws of history?

They say history always repeats itself - empires rise and fall, economies boom and bust - but is there a way to map and predict the dynamical processes of history? The new and highly controversial discipline…

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