Book excerpt 🧵on the Islamisation of the Javanese, the de-facto ruling race of Indonesia & nearly half its population. Over the 20thC Java went from a fundamentally pagan/Vedic society Muslim in name only, to an Islamic one now rapidly jetissoning its old culture & way of life.

On genetic potential

emilkirkegaard.com/p/on-genetic-p…

America and Europe are equally poor.

Higher wage and GDP figures for the U.S. are overblown and fail to capture America's dwindling public wealth. Europe is now on a trajectory to get poorer, but isn't there yet.

Read the new article by Marko Jukic here: palladiummag.com/2024/04/26/ame…

a #Happening requires 3 ingredients: 1) a fanatical vanguard group 2) a mode of interaction between the vanguard & at least one major institution 3) a situation where that mode can be leveraged by the vanguard to move that/those institution(s).

Ridolfo & Gismonda - JC Leyendecker, 1906

Thread with excerpts from “Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century” by Geoffrey Parker

of all of the books I've read on America, these two stand out as the most useful for understanding where the Republicans came from, and what they are. Their recent successes & failures are part of a pattern that goes back to the party's total victory in 1865.

committing myself to reading these before end of the year

in Phoenix for work for the next few days, but have evenings free. Lemme know if you want to get Thai food or something.

Work to digitally unroll the Herculaneum papyri has revealed that Plato may once have been sold into slavery, and that his grave could be found within a private garden inside the Platonic Academy in Athens.

Roma Termini: why cities both make us and break us as a species razibkhan.com/p/roma-termini… While the Greeks are famed in the ancient world for their achievements in abstract analysis, and for pioneering mathematics, science and philosophy, the Romans were a more practical people,…