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Article
James Marriott

End Times, The Times book of the year

The Times (2023)
Article
Gabriel Rath

Forscher sagt: „2024 wird das System in den USA möglicherweise zusammenbrechen“(German)

Die Presse (2023)
Article
Larry Elliott

More public investment, not less, could lift advanced economies out of their malaise

The Guardian (2023)
Article
Martin Kugler

Klima und Geschichte

Die Presse (2023)
Article
Kate Yoder

Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?

Grist (2023)
Article
Karin Haugen

Elitene og endetidene (Norwegian)

Klassekampen (2023)
Review
John Greenville

A Data Historian Looks Back in Horror

Chronicles Magazine (2023)
Article
Richard Heinberg

The World’s Top Industrial Countries Are in Treacherous Waters

Resilience.org (2023)
Article
Tom Hale

Is The US Entering Its “End Times”? Other Fallen Societies May Suggest So

IFL Science (2023)
Article

Culture, polity, economy decide society’s future in changing climate crises, researchers say

National Herald India (2023)
Article

Polykrisen: Sozialer Zusammenhalt macht Gesellschaft widerstandsfähig (German)

Science APA (2023)
Article

Why do some environmental shocks lead to disaster while others don’t?

Complexity Science Hub Vienna (2023)
Article

Sozialer Zusammenhalt hilft bei multiplen Krisen (German)

Kronen Zeitung (2023)
Article

Zusammenhalt macht Gesellschaft widerstandsfähig (German)

ORF (2023)
Review
Louis Sagnières

L’historien peut-il prévoir l’avenir? (French)

La Vie des Idées (2023)
Review
Christopher Walker

Book review: ‘End Times’ by Peter Turchin

Impact Investor (2023)
Article
Mathilde Ragot

L’effondrement de la dernière dynastie chinoise des Qing, un avertissement pour le futur ? (French)

GEO (2023)
Article
Monika Brown

Testing 17 Theories on the Development of Complex Civilizations

UCLA Anderson Review (2023)
Article

Warum die Qing-Dynastie unterging (German)

ORF (2023)
Article
Rachael Funnell

Qing Dynasty’s Collapse Driven By Three Things, And They Could Happen To Us

Ifl Science (2023)
Article

Así fue el colapso de la última dinastía imperial china (Spanish)

El Economista (2023)
Podcast
Joseph Walker

Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) — Peter Turchin

The Joe Walker Podcast (2023)
Article

Peter Turchin : «Malheureusement, des guerres civiles sont très probables» (French)

Le Figaro (2023)
Article

Teorin: Därför går allt åt helvete just nu (Swedish)

Aftonbladet (2023)
Article
Danyl McLauchlan

New science explains the rise of political instability, oligarchy and elites

NZ Herarld (2023)
Review
Christopher Mott

Elite Overproduction and Foreign Policy

The National Interest (2023)
Article
Hannes Stein

„Leider sind Bürgerkriege sehr wahrscheinlich“ (German)

Welt (2023)
Article
Eguiar Lizundia

España desintegrada (Spanish)

Vozpopuli (2023)
Review
Dominic Green

‘The Fourth Turning Is Here’ and ‘End Times’ Review: Big Wheel

The Wall Street Journal (2023)
Review
Markus Schär

Peter Turchins Blick in die Zukunft ist düster: Die Überproduktion von Eliten führt meist zu Kriegen und Revolutionen (German)

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2023)
Podcast

Are We Living Through ‘End Times’?

Honestly with Bari Weiss (2023)
Article
Richard Heinberg

Are These the End Times?

Common Dreams (2023)
Review
Francis Fukuyama

Big Histories for the Big Future

New York Times (2023)
Podcast
Joe Donahue

“End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration” by Peter Turchin

WAMC (2023)
Review
David Goodhart

Top-­table clash

TLS (2023)
Podcast

A Huge Outpouring of Human Misery (w/ Peter Turchin)

Uncertain Things (2023)
Article
Frederick Jameson

Unveiling the True Factors behind the Collapse of Small-Scale Societies

Bollyinside (2023)
Podcast

EP 190 Peter Turchin on Cliodynamics and End Times

The Jim Rutt Show (2023)
Review
Andrew Curry

Elites, political disintegration, and ‘cliodynamics’

Resilience (2023)
Video

Peter Turchin: Elites and the Path to Political Disintegration – The Realignment Podcast

The Realignment (2023)
Video
Andrew Yang

Can Math Predict the End Times?

Forward with Andrew Yang (2023)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it?

Salon (2023)
Podcast
Sommer Saadi, Merryn Webb

Why the Rise of ‘Counter-Elites’ Spells Bad News for the UK

Bloomberg (2023)
Article
Crawford Kilian

Are These the End Times? Historian Peter Turchin Says Yes

The Tyee (2023)
Podcast
Matt Grossmann

Are we overproducing elites and instability?

Niskanen Center (2023)
Review
Paul Rosenberg

Hope in “End Times”: Peter Turchin’s analysis of our coming collapse could help us avoid it

Salon (2023)
Article
Edward Chancellor

Interest rates have broken the global wealth pump

Reuters (2023)
Video
Carl Zha

End Times Why Societies Rise and Falls Peter Turchin Interview

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Article

Zerbrechliche Gesellschaften

Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (2023)
Video
Aaron Bastani

Is The West Heading Towards Social Breakdown? | Aaron Bastani Meets Peter Turchin

Novara Media (2023)
Article
Will Lloyd

Is another American revolution inevitable?

The New Statesman (2023)
Article
Emma Duncan

We should cheer decline of humanities degrees

The Times (2023)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

Welcome to the “End Times”: Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse

Salon (2023)
Podcast

Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration

democracyparadoxblog (2023)
Video

Wealth inequality’s scientific causes, and how to fix them | Peter Turchin interview

PoliticsJOE (2023)
Article
David Shariatmadari

How to avoid a civil war, by the man who predicted Trump

The Guardian (2023)
Article
Mary Harrington

Will the elites ever behave?

unherd.com (2023)
Review
James Marriott

End Times by Peter Turchin review — prepare for revolution

The Times (2023)
Review
Richard V Reeves

No Room at the Top End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

Literary Review (2023)
Video

Understanding Societal Collapse with Complexity Scientist Peter Turchin

The Conduit (2023)
Podcast
Sam Leith

Peter Turchin: End Times

The Specator (2023)
Article
Gillian Tett

Trump or not, US meltdown could be inevitable

Financial Times (2023)
Review
Tim Adams

End Times by Peter Turchin review – can we predict the collapse of societies?

The Guardian (2023)
Article
Niall Ferguson

When You’re in a Cold War, Play for Time

Bloomberg (2023)
Article
A Member of the Oxford Feminist Union

At Oxford students now live in fear – they think cancelling each other will help them get ahead

The Telegraph (2023)
Podcast

Peter Turchin: Why Empires Rise & Fall

The Nietzsche Podcast (2023)
Blog
Branko Milanovic

The chronicle of the revolutions foretold? A Review of Peter Turchin’s “End Times”

Substack (2023)
Article
Maria Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

Abolish the Consulting Industry

Compact (2023)
Article
Peter Franklin

Beware the promise of ‘peak woke’

unherd.com (2023)
Podcast

The Coming Collapse (w/ Peter Turchin)

Uncertain Things (2023)
Article
Dimitri Burshtein and John Ruddick

Elite revolt

Spectator (2023)
Article
Peter Turchin, David Sloan Wilson

Ten Thousand Years of the Third Way: A Conversation with Peter Turchin

This View of Life (2022)
Article
Tim Brinkhof

Did war help societies become bigger and more complex?

Big Think (2022)
Article
Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Theories on socio-political evolution put to the test

phys.org (2022)
Article
Marc Neumann

Es gibt immer mehr frustrierte Verlierer mit politischen Ambitionen. Das ist nicht nur in den USA gefährlich (German)

Neue Züricher Zeitung (2022)
Article
Matthew Syed

There are too many super rich people now, and that spells trouble

The Times (2021)
Article
Stephen Mihm

Why Is the U.S. Murder Rate Spiking?

Bloomberg (2021)
Article
Daniel K. Kalinaki

We have planted the seeds of revolt, time to harvest the grapes of wrath

Daily Monitor (2021)
Article
Edward Helmore

We’re on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist’s take on Trump and Biden

The Guardian (2021)
Article
Enza Jonas-Giugni

Peter Turchin: The Magnetism of Mathematical History

The Science Survey (2021)
Article
Redacción

Predicciones para 2021. Peter Turchin

En Positivo (2021)
Video

Científico que predijo un 2020 catastrófico lanza ‘predicción’ 2021

Milenio (2021)
Article
Milenio Digital

Científico que predijo un 2020 catastrófico lanza ‘predicción’ 2021; esto dijo el ‘Nostradamus de la historia'( Spanish)

Milenio (2021)
Article
Sara Barroso Mataran

¿Quién es Peter Turchin y por qué está volviendo a ser considerado el gurú de nuestra época? 

Publico (2021)
Article
William Oliva

Las escalofriantes predicciones de Peter Turchin, el “Nostradamus de la historia” (Spanish)

Prensa Libre (2021)
Article
Redacción

Peter Turchin, el científico que predijo hace 10 años que 2020 sería atroz

Los Replicantes (2021)
Article
Noah Smith

America Is Pumping Out Too Many Ph.D.s

Bloomberg (2021)
Article
Miquel Echarri

Quién es Peter Turchin, el Nostradamus de la historia que hace diez años ya predijo que 2020 sería atroz (Spanish)

El País (2021)
Article
Andreas Mink

Bürgerkrieg in den USA, Unruhen in Europa – Forscher prognostizieren: Die dunklen Jahre kommen erst

NZZ Magazin (2020)
Article
Thomas B. Edsall

America, We Have a Problem

The New York Times (2020)
Article
Patrick Smyth

Beware of Trump’s legacy to political culture 

The Irish Times (2020)
Article
Janan Ganesh

The real class war is within the rich 

Financial Times (2020)
Article
Graeme Wood

The next decade could be even worse

The Atlantic (2020)
Article
John Mauldin

This Was All Predicted 10 Years Ago

Forbes (2020)
Article
Ben Ehrenreich

How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart?

New York Times (2020)
Article

Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing

The Economist (2020)
Article
Max Boot

Ginsburg’s passing may worsen the crisis of our democracy 

The Washington Post (2020)
Article
Ross Douthat

The Real White Fragility

The New York Times (2020)
Article
Noah Smith

The Wealthy and Privileged Can Revolt, Too

Bloomberg (2020)
Article
Jamie Clifton

The Scientist Who Predicted 2020’s Political Unrest Reveals What Comes Next

Vice (2020)
Article

This Researcher Predicted 2020 Would Be Mayhem. Here’s What He Says May Come Next

TIME (2020)
Article
Melissa Chan

This Researcher Predicted 2020 Would Be Mayhem. Here’s What He Says May Come Next

Time (2020)
Article
Daniel Araya

American Revolution American Renewal 

Forbes (2020)
Article
Andrew Nikiforuk

Where Do We Go From Here

The Tyee (2020)
Article
Amanda Rees

Are there laws of history?

Aeon (2020)
Article
Angela Nagle

The Russian historian predicting chaos

Washington Examiner (2020)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

Does the coronavirus pandemic mean the end of globalization? Good!

Salon (2020)
Article
Laura Spinney

Inequality doesn’t just make pandemics worse – it could cause them

The Guardian (2020)
Article
Adrian Lobe

Wiederholt sich die Geschichte? Und können wir die Zukunft berechnen, wenn wir über genügend Daten verfügen? (German)

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2020)
Article
Laura Spinney

Panicking about societal collapse? Plunder the bookshelves

Nature (2020)
Article
Mohammad Abul Kalam

Welcoming the new decade

The Independent (2020)
Article
Michael Springer

Göttliche Hüter der Moral (German)

Spektrum (2020)
Article
Michael Moorstedt

Prognosestress (German)

Süddeutsche Zeitung (2019)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

With a new decade — a new hope? Reasons for optimism in a disordered world

Salon (2019)
Article
Crawford Kilian

Will the US Drag Canada into the ‘Turbulent 2020s’

The Tyee (2019)
Article
Odile Romelot

La modélisation de l’histoire prédit un cycle de crises dès 2020 (French)

Slate.fr (2019)
Article
Laura Spinney

History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future

The Guardian (2019)
Article

Cliodynamics: can we use history to forecast the future?

The Week (2019)
Video

How You Are Going To Die: Societal Collapse (Apocalypse NowThis)- 2019

Apocalypse NowThis (2019)
Article
Niall Ferguson

America is edging closer to civil war 

The Times (2018)
Article
T.A. Frank

Happy Birthday America: Is It Your Last

Vanity Fair (2018)
Article
Zoe Williams

Why are we living in an age of anger – is it because of the 50-year rage cycle?

The Guardian (2018)
Article
Alexis Riopel

L’histoire déchiffrée grâce à la science des données (French)

Quebec Science (2018)
Article
Andrew Yang

The War on Ordinary People

Daily Beast (2018)
Article
Laura Spinney

Did Human Sacrifice Help People Form Complex Societies

The Atlantic (2018)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

Norms are eroding: But what “norms” should progressives actually support

Salon (2018)
Article
Laura Spinney

End of days: Is Western civilisation on the brink of collapse

New Scientist (2018)
Article
Zoe Williams

2017 killed off an old political lie – that the young don’t care

The Guardian (2017)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

Looking back at 2017: A shape-shifting year that promises big change ahead

Salon (2017)
Article
Karin Krichmayr

Gesellschaftsforscher: “Es gibt zu viele Milliardäre in den USA” (German)

Der Standard (2017)
Article
Robert Koehler

The violence comes home again

Huffington Post (2017)
Article
Nick Hanauer

To My Fellow Plutocrats: You Can Cure Trumpism

Politico (2017)
Article
Niall Ferguson

America is angry, and the safety catch is off

The Times (2017)
Article
Darien Cavanaugh

Coming Social Instability In America Predicted Years Ago, Researcher Says

The Inquisitor (2017)
Article
Hannah Osborne

The worst is yet to come: Scientist warns social instability and political violence will peak in the 2020s

International Business Times (2017)
Podcast

The Value of Everything: E120. Professor Steve Keen Interview- The Future of Money 

The Value of Everything (2017)
Article
Zoe Williams

In Paul Nuttall, Ukip’s hypocrisy is finally being revealed

The Guardian (2017)
Article
Sean Martin

APOCALYPSE WARNING: Billionaires buy up land in NEW ZEALAND as they look for safe haven

Express (2017)
Article

Academic predicts society will collapse in 2020s

The Express Tribune (2017)
Article
Aoife Bannon

APOCALYPSE HOW!? Mathematical historian says that human civilisation could be wiped out in less than 10 years

The Irish Sun (2017)
Article
Lucy Pasha-Robinson

‘Society could end in less than a decade,’ predicts academic

Independent (2017)
Article
Katie Mansfield

Society could end in TEN YEARS as political turmoil continues, predicts scientist

Express UK (2017)
Article
Gavin Allen

There’s worse to come than Donald Trump’s presidency and society will hit rock bottom in 2020, predicts scientist

Daily Mirror (2017)
Article

Professor is overtuigd: “Westerse samenleving stuikt binnen tien jaar in elkaar” (Dutch)

Het Nieuwsblad (2017)
Article

Social Instability Lies Ahead, Researcher SaysIs civilisation heading for a COLLAPSE? Mathematical historian predicts political turmoil will peak in the 2020sSocial Instability Lies Ahead, Researcher Says

Daily Mail (2017)
Article
Tara Dodrill

Civilization Collapse Could Happen In the 2020s Due To ‘Political Turmoil’ Professor Predicts

The Inquisitor (2017)
Article
Michael Kaplan

Mathematician predicts the next decade will be awful.

New York Post (2017)
Article
Jessica Haworth

Political violence on Earth ‘will peak in 2020s’ as Maths historian predicts potential End of Days

Daily Mirror (2017)
Article
Abigail Beall

Is civilisation heading for a COLLAPSE? Mathmatical historian predicts political turmoil will peak in the 2020s

Daily Mail (2017)
Article
Jasper Hamill

Society could COLLAPSE within a decade, ‘mathematical historian’ predicts

The Sun (2017)
Article
George Martin

Society to COLLAPSE in 2020s claims expert historian

Daily Star (2017)
Article
Charles Hugh Smith

The Pressing Problem Nobody Dares Discuss

Seeking Alpha (2016)
Article
James Greybey

“Cliodynamics” Research Proves America Freaks Out Every 50 Years

Inverse (2016)
Review
Arthur Lyon Dahl

Ultrasociety (book review)

International Environmental Forum (2016)
Article
Juan Pablo Luna

Trump, el fin de la cooperación y el inicio de un ciclo de violencia (Spanish)

Ciper (2016)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

Clinton Fails to Deliver

Random Lenghs News (2016)
Article
Laura Spinney

The database that is rewriting history to predict the future

New Scientist (2016)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

Breaking point: America approaching a period of disintegration, argues anthropologist Peter Turchin 

Salon (2016)
Article
Gary Mason

In America, a time of deep anxiety, yet again

The Globe and Mail (2016)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

A cultural evolutionary explanation for the not-so-surprising Brexit outcome

Salon (2016)
Article
Nick Stockton

In the Science of Civilizations, Brexit Is the European Union’s Reckoning

Wired.com (2016)
Article
Robert Koehler

War, Murder and the American Way

The Huffington Post (2016)
Article
Robert Koehler

Mass Karma

Huffington Post (2016)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

Either one will lead to war: Hawkish Hillary and reckless Trump could both lead to prolonged new wars

Salon (2016)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

They’re still not telling the real story: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the analysis you won’t hear on cable news

Salon (2016)
Article
Ned Resnikoff

What Ancient History Has To Say About Near-Future Doom

IB Times (2016)
Article
Colin Barras

Has ritual human sacrifice shaped societies and class systems?

New Scientist (2016)
Article
Annalee Newitz

New evidence: Easter Island civilization was not destroyed by war

Ars Technica (2016)
Article
Paul Rosenberg

This is why we’re so f*cked: Our politics are only going to get worse

Salon (2015)
Video

Cliodynamics explains history scientifically: an interview with Peter Turchin

Seshat: Global History Databank (2015)
Article
Charles Hugh Smith

2 overlooked characteristics of an empire in decline

Business Insider (2015)
Article
Morgan Clendaniel

Where Are These Pitchforks That Billionaires Are So Scared Of?

FastCoExist (2015)
Podcast

The Forum (BBC): Hierarchy

BBC (2014)
Article
Dominique Baillard

Le printemps arabe, une révolution pour l’élite ? (French)

RFI (2014)
Video
Michael Bang Petersen

Peter Turchin: Predicting History

(2014)
Podcast

The Philosophy of Russell Brand

BBC Radio (2014)
Article
Андрей Шитов

America is Vulnerable to a Peak of Instability in 2020 (Russian)

Rossiyskaya Gazeta (2013)
Article
Dave Ross

Are You Ready for 2020?

CBS Radio (2013)
Article
Debora Mackenzie

The maths that saw the US shutdown coming

The New Scientist (2013)
Article

How 3,000 year age of empires was recreated by a simple equation: Scientists show how math can predict historical trends with 65% accuracy

Daily Mail (2013)
Article
Hal Hodson

Real-world Civilisation game shows impact of war

The New Scientist (2013)
Article
Monte Morin

Scientists use math — and computer war games — to show how society evolved

Los Angeles Times (2013)
Article
Laura Spinney

War Fueled Evolution Of Institutions & Societies, Math Model Suggests

Huffington Post (2013)
Article
Rob Waugh

War has been “creative force” behind civilisation, scientists claim

Yahoo! News (2013)
Article
Laura Hood

Computer simulations reveal war drove the rise of civilisations

The Conversation (2013)
Article
Владимир Тодоров

Ученые сыграли в цивилизацию (Russian)

Gazeta.ru (2013)
Article

Military innovations turned out to be the engine of the evolution of civilizations (Russian)

RIA Novosti (2013)
Article
Laura Spinney

Empires, bureaucracies and religion arise from war

Nature (2013)
Video

Турчин Петр – Разрушение кооперации (Russian)

PostNauka (2013)
Article
Rémi Sussan

Au coeur de la cliodynamique (2/2) : le rôle de la coopération

Internet Actu (2013)
Article
Rémi Sussan

Au coeur de la cliodynamique (1/2) : les cycles historiques (French)

Internet Actu (2013)
Article
Maria Teresa Cometto

Il matematico che vuole prevedere il futuro (Italian)

Corriere della Sera (2013)
Article
Klint Finley

Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past

Wired (2013)
Article
Marc Parry

Quantitative History Makes a Comeback: Historians Argue for a Scientific Study of the Past

The Chronicle of Higher Education (2013)
Article
Jamie Clifton

2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We’ll Really Be in Trouble

Vice.com (2012)
Article
Bob Holmes

Calculated violence: Numbers that predict revolutions

New Scientist (2012)
Article
Natalie Wolchover

Will the US Really Experience a Violent Upheaval in 2020?

Live Science (2012)
Article
Laura Spinney

News Feature in Nature onHuman Cycles: History as Science

Nature (2012)
Article
Alexis C. Madrigal

Q: Why Do We Wear Pants? A: Horses

The Atlantic (2012)
Article
Daniel Lametti

Why Must I Wear Pants?

Slate (2012)
Article

Wie viele Bürger hatte Rom? (German)

Die Presse (2009)
Article

Статистика кладов исключает демографический взрыв в Древнем Риме в I веке н.э. (Russian)

Elementy (2009)
Article
Henry Fountain

Counting Coins to Count Rome’s Population

New York Times (2009)
Article

Archäologische These entwickelt (German)

N-TV (2009)
Article

Overgang naar Romeins keizerrijk leidde tot forse bevolkingskrimp (Dutch)

Standaard (2009)
Article

Elásott kincsekkel számolták meg a rómaiakat (Hungarian)

MultKor (2009)
Article

Forscher zählen Römer neu (German)

Spiegel.de (2009)
Article

Buried Coins May Hold Key To Solving Mystery Of Ancient Roman Population

ScienceDaily (2009)
Article

Roman Coin Hoards Show More War Means Fewer Babies

Wired.com (2009)
Article

Buried coins key to Roman population mystery?

EurekAlert (2009)
Article

Buried Coins Key to Roman Population Mystery?

NSF News (2009)
Article

Bevölkerungszahl aus Münzschätzen rekonstruierbar (German)

Spektrum.de (2009)
Article
Colin Poitras

Buried Coins May Help Solve Mystery of Ancient Roman Population

Uconn Today (2009)
Blog
Massimo Pigliucci

Cliodynamics, a science of history?

rationallyspeaking (2008)
Blog
Razib Khan

Cliodynamics, the rise & fall of empires and asabiya

gnxp (2008)
Article

Mathematics and History (Russian)

Radio Liberty (2007)
Article

L’Histoire ce cherche (French)

Sciences et Avenir (2006)
Review
Mark Buchanan

War and Peace and War

The New Scientist (2005)
Review
Philip Ball

Empire of the sums

The Guardian (2005)
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