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Writer, book lover, curious soul. Retired. New life in NY after living about 30 years in Europe and Asia.
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Savior of the Roman Empire, 69 CE open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Vespasian #Augustus #Principate #Nero #Titus #imperial #Rome #RomanArmy #Caligula #year69 #4Emperors #Empire #Bedriacum #FlavianDynasty #equestrian #MarcusAurelius #Hadrian #PretorianGuard #Colosseum

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Doomed republic, then the dictatorship of Augustus open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Rome #RomanArmy #RomanLegion #RomanEmpire #SPQR #History #RomanHistory #AncientHistory #MilitaryHistory #greece #greek #Greek-history #romeitaly #Augustus #imperium #Metelli #republic

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Peacetime Hitler, before the war open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Hitler #Nazi #peacetime #Dual-State-theory #Aryan #eugenics #war-mobilization #war-footing #Gestapo #Nazi-ideology #HitlerYouth #Nazi-autarky #Lebensraum #Aryanization #Anti-Semitism #Volkswagon #inter-war #Sudetenland

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Longshanks, the ruthless feudal monarch open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #monarchy #Longshanks #feudal #Eleanor-of-Aquitaine #EdwardI #HenryIII #PhilipIII #MagnaCarta #Britain #Scotland #France #Llywellan-ap-Gruffudd #constitutional-monarchy #Braveheart

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The dismal science as intellectual adventure and passionate call to action open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #economics #Keynes #great-depression #finance #government #liberalism #FDR #laissez-faire #DawesPlan #Weimar #Germanreparations #NewDeal #macroeconomics #Nixon #Reagan

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Our most consequential failure open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Reconstruction #CivilWar #Freedman'sBureau #AndrewJohnson #Lincoln #failure #Grant #Foner #Dunning-school #KKK #slave #JimCrow

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Freeing the slaves in the British Empire open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #slavery #abolition #CivilWar #Wilberforce #ThomasClarkson #activism #slave-trade-triangle #plantation #Caribbean #America #cotton #sugar #capitalism #Olaudah-Equiano #Haiti #SierraLeone #

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The definitive one-volume take on the Russian revolution open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Lenin #Russia #Soviet #revolution #Tsar #NicolasII #Bolshevik #empire #Duma #Mensheviks #Trotsky #Stalin #tragedy #Kerensky #Rasputin #WorldWarI #Reds

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The cognitive neuroscience of sleep open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #sleep #snore #cognitive #neuroscience #dreams #Freud

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We need to look at alternative societies to understand the range of human potential open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Rousseau #hunter-gatherers #Hobbes #state #archaeology #Mi’kmaq #FrenchAmerica #Göbekli-Tepe #IceAge #Cahokia #humannature #economics #civilization #capitalism #Enlightenment

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Social anthropology on how we work open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #work #agriculture #Luddites #economics #urbanization #entropy #industrialization #industrial-revolution #state #hunter-gatherers #neolithic #scarcity #demographics #anthropology #sociology

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Nationalism: what is it, where did it come from? open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #nationalism #myth #absolutism #nation #ethnolinguistic #creole #revolution #capitalism #narrative #racism #antisemitism #ideology #socialism #political #community #us-versus-them #vernacular #Latin #religion #Europe

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What's coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

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Proletariat as founders of capitalism and revolution open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #proletariat #sailors #Marx #revolutionary #imperialism #empire #SamuelAdams #slave #enclosure-movement #commons #peasants #impressment #RoyalNavy #capitalism #work #factory #economics #history

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and Tamerlane, Sword of Islam open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Genghis #Khan #Attila #Tamerlane #Islam #civilization #Huns #Alans #Mongols #nomads #steppe #Rome #Persia #China #war #warrior #China #India #Scythian #Sassanid #Parthian #Eurasia #Hungary

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

How Europe became Christian open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Clovis #Constantine #Fausta #Christianity #pagan #conversion #Europe #history #religion #Roman #Constantinople #Theodosius #evangelism #Byzantium #Charlemagne #Hesychasm #absolute-ruler #GreekOrthodox #Islam #Viking

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The first slave memoir open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #history #black #slavery #slave #Africa #trans-Altantic #America #gold #Portuguese #Spanish #Canary-Islands #SãoTomé #White-Man’s-Burden

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Putting Africa at center stage open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #history #black #slavery #slave #Africa #trans-Altantic #America #gold #Portuguese #Spanish #Canary-Islands #SãoTomé #White-Man’s-Burden

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From Bronze Age collapse to the Polis open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #DarkAges #Greece #Mycenae #BronzeAge #Athens #polis #systems-failure #classics #antiquity #west #Corinth

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crawdaddy.substack.com/p/the-moveme... #Romanticism #nationalism #genius #art #Enlightenment #philosophes #Rousseau #Beethoven #genius #darkness #Dionysian #unconscious #fascism #Shelley #Delacroix #religion #atheism #rockstar #dasVolk #Kant #Fichte #BelleEpoque #Freud #Jung

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The impact of the Indosphere open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #India #Buddhism #Hinduism #China #Cambodia #Indonesia #Japan #Korea #algebra #zero #algorithm #Xuanzang #Dalrymple #Greece #Rome #mathematics #renaissance #Toledo #Indosphere #SilkRoad #GoldenRoad #Islam #Abbasid #Wu-Zetian #Sanskrit

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The romantic reaction to the hyper-rationalism of the Enlightenment philosophes open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #enlightenment #romanticism #IsaiahBerlin #Spinoza #Machiavelli #Descartes #monist #philosophy #Vico #Voltaire #Montesquieu #nationalism #Zionism #socialism #totalitarianism #Marx

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The start of the Belle Époque open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #history #France #Austria #Congress-of-Vienna #Kissinger #Belle-Epoque #Napoleon #Metternich #balance-of-power #TsarAlexanderI #LouisXVIII #war #diplomacy #war #peace #Prussia #multilateral

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Lincoln as American everyman open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Abe #Lincoln #AbeLincoln #CivilWar #slavery #19thCentury #Illinois #everyman #frontier #Kentucky #presidency #law #railroad #writer #abolitionist #EmancipationProclamation

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Triumphalist narrative open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #history #American #revolution #democracy #GeorgeIII #jingoism #triumphalist #Oxford #Americanhistory

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with economists is not just communication. They don't understand politics. They come straight out of the Enlightenment tradition of rational decisionmaking. Politicians know that doesn't always work. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b... #economics #TeachEcon #politics

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Wagner as cultural force open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Wagner #wagnerism #Ring #romanticism #enlightenment #myth #Jung #nationalism #Germany #1848revolution #socialism #utopia #valkyrie #Herzl #Nazism #anti-semitism #StarWars #Nietzsche #Schopenhauer #Gesamtkunstwerk #modernism #culture

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Great artistic pioneer open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #art #art-history #Spain #baroque #surrealism #saturn #history #enlightenment #Habsbourg #romantic #unconscious #war #Goya #Ilustración #LosCaprichos #Napoleon #RobertHughes

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How Europe became Christian open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Christianity #Dark-Age #Rome #Byzantium #western #courtier #Constantine #Theodosius #conversion #evangelism #Theology #heretics #Clovis #pagan #Charlemagne #born-again #psychology #conversion #Lithuania #crusade #God #antiquity #faith

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Antecedents to the Wars of the Roses open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #history #Plantagenet #RichardII #HenryIV #HenryV #WarsoftheRoses #England #France #Lancaster #York #Feudal #Christianity #Mandate-from-Heaven #legitimacy #monarchy

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Hackers in geopolitical context open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #hacking #internet #computer #geopolitics #China #hackers #bugs #sleeper-worms #McAfee #Zero-day #apocalypse #iDefense #Microsoft #NSA #TAO #Tailored-Access-Operations #Vulnerability-Research-Lab #VRL #cyber #mass-destruction #cyber

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Too little about too much open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #media #thomas-friedman #new-york-times #global #the-world-is-flat #economics #pundit #internet

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The building blocks of pre-Christian religion in sociological perspective open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Christianity #western #Asian #Axial #Rome #history #religion #pre-Christian #pagan #philosophy #evolution

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crawdaddy.substack.com/p/1200-years... #Rome #army #history #Caesar #Carthage #Diocletian #Europe #Italy

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