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

15 mins | Jun 22, 2023
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Across the west, "diseases of despair" and "elite overproduction" are fuelling an economic and civil crisis. So what can we do to turn things around? David Shariatmadri uses historian Peter Turchin's latest book, "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration", to explore measures to avert disaster.

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