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How Chinese Confucians Invented Communism
A History of Mankind (219)
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David Roman
Quick Take: Political Unification Has Turned Europe Into a Substandard Version of China
Europe's killer app was political fragmentation and now it's gone, so Europe sucks
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The God Abandons Antony
A History of Mankind (218)
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The Second Triumvirate & Cicero's Murder
A History of Mankind (217)
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Quick Take: The Myth of the Persecutions that Made Jews Smart
It wasn't persecution that selected Jews for intelligence, but religiousness, self-isolation and urbanization
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January 2025

Q&A for History of Mankind (30)
The origins of Japanese people & the history of drugs; plus questions on philosophy of history, Orientalism, the Gracchi and circus animals in Rome
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Antony's Revenge
A History of Mankind (216)
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The Parthian Threat
A History of Mankind (215)
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Quick Take: Look for Esoteric Writing
Why continental philosophers tend to write so badly & why you should still make the effort to read them
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Caesar's Last Days: From Alexandria to Rome
A History of Mankind (214)
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The Civil War that Caesar Won
A History of Mankind (213)
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Quick Take: Palestine Vs Israel, a Quick'n Dirty Summary
The hottest of all hot ethnic conflicts on the planet is still burning bright
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