Historical Case Studies

The glass delusion and the somatic translation of elite anxiety.

A five-part investigation into historical episodes where entire populations succumbed to shared, irrational, or panic-driven behavioral feedback loops.

Inside the Strasbourg Dancing Plague of 1518 and mass psychogenic illness.

How do organizations decay? This series explores the fundamental laws that govern how organizations grow, shrink, and evolve over time.

An examination of Belgium's colonial venture in the Congo — its origins, its atrocities, and its enduring shadow over Central Africa today

A five-part series examining the system-level failure hidden behind displacement statistics: 117 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, a median exile duration exceeding 20 years, and an international framework built around a crisis it was never designed to make permanent.

A five-part series using Wintrobe's loyalty-repression model and Verwimp's commune-level data to show that the Rwandan genocide was not the explosion of ancient hatreds but the rational outcome of a budget constraint the dictator could no longer meet.

A five-part series examining why the countries best endowed with natural resources are so frequently the worst governed, and how the arithmetic of commodity dependence — not culture, not climate, not colonial history alone — explains the pattern.