History of ideas

Fourteenth-century theory of dynastic cycles, taxation and the rise of states

Big history of money, trade and the shared fictions that organise markets

A century of history compressed into recurring patterns and rates

Diamond's central question — why did some civilizations come to dominate others over 10,000 years? — is precisely the kind of question that requires long-term thinking to even ask. The answer, rooted in geography and biology rather than culture or intelligence, is a model for how to reason about slow causes and fast effects.

History read as an expanding series of non-zero-sum games

History of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance