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

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Peter Turchin’s data-driven analysis of our historical peril is compelling — and it’s also a call to action.
The day Donald Trump was arraigned for unauthorized possession of national security documents — heightening his party’s attacks on the nation’s justice system — also saw the publication of Peter Turchin’s new book, “End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration,” arguably the most comprehensive explanation so far of the current and ongoing crisis of American politics….