History

Exploring the mathematical framework that predicts when democracy falls to tyranny through the alignment of personal ambition, institutional weakness, and coalition strength.

Designing institutions to prevent the emergence of tyranny.

Exploring the spectrum of tyrannical regimes and their outcomes.

How coalitions of supporters maintain or undermine tyrannical regimes.

How absolute power creates self-reinforcing cycles of corruption and decay.

A mathematical exploration of how tyranny emerges and can be prevented.

Exploring the mathematical threshold where tyranny becomes inevitable.

Exploring the origins of neoliberalism from the Madeira deforestation to the 1938 Paris conference.

The unexpected leadership lesson from Genghis Khan: how embracing a blank page built the largest contiguous empire in history.

The bizarre story of the 1718 Puckle Gun, designed to fire square bullets at Muslims as a form of religious warfare.