Asimov, Isaac
* The Feeling of Power: "AI, vay! Is the Borg coming* Is resistance futile*"
on August 6, 2021 and "Duelling AIs" on May 23, 2025
* The Foundation (series/trilogy): "The Laws of History"
on December 4, 2020 and "Revival of the Fittest" on May 6, 2022
* The Last Question: "Duelling AIs" on May 23, 2025
* Nightfall:
• Bakewell, Sarah
* How to Live: "How To Live" on July 14, 2023
• Beard, Charles
* The Economic Interpretation of the Constitution: "History and Truth" on June 25, 2021
• Bobbit, Phillip
* The Shield of Achilles: "Global Wars of the 20C" on December 15, 2023
• Bradbury, Ray
* The Martian Chronicles: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022 and “Calculators: July 25, 2025
• Bricker and Ibbitson
* Empty Planet: "A Democratic Crisis" on October 9, 2020
• Card, Orson Scott
* Ender’s Game: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
* Speaker for the Dead: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
* Xenocide: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Carlyle, Thomas
* On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History: "Vox Polluli" on June 10, 2022
• Carson, Rachel
* Silent Spring: “The Word for Our World is Forests” on December 24, 2020
• Chiang, Ted
* Exhalation (collection): "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
* Stories of Your Life (collection): "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Clark, Christopher
* Revolutionary Spring: "These Revolutions Were Not Televised" on February 16, 2024
* The Sleepwalkers: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Clarke, Arthur C.
* 2001: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022 and “2525” on January 17, 2025
* Into the Comet: "Duelling AIs" on May 23, 2025
• Darnton, Robert
* The Great Cat Massacre: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Defoe, Daniel
* Journal of a Plague Year: "Journal of a Blog Year.3" on September 15, 2023
• Dickens, Charles
* David Copperfield: "Entitlements" on September 8, 2023
• Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
* The Great Encyclopédie: "A History of the Future" on April 15, 2022
• Elmore, A.E.
* Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: "Gettysburg" on July 2, 2021
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh
* A Time of Gifts: "Uncharted Territory" on April 12, 2024
* Between the Woods and the Water: "Uncharted Territory" on April 12, 2024
* The Broken Road: "Uncharted Territory" on April 12, 2024
• Grossman, Vasily
* Life and Fate: "Stalingrad" on May 10, 2024
* Stalingrad: "Stalingrad" on May 10, 2024
• Harari, Yuval
* Sapiens: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Herbert, Frank
* Dune: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Hirschman, Albert O.
* The Passions and the Interests: "The Nature of the State" on April 26, 2024
• Hitler, Adolf
* Mein Kampf: "The Fire This Time" on July 11, 2025
• Hutchinson, Dave
* Europe in Autumn (first of “Fractured Europe” series):
"A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Jemison, N.K.
* The City We’ve Become: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Kahneman, Daniel
* Noise: "Thinking Fast and Slow" on July 30, 2021
* Thinking Fast and Slow: "Thinking Fast and Slow" on July 30, 2021
• Kay, Guy Gavriel
* Children of Earth and Sky: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Kelly, Amy
* Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings:
"A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Kennedy, Paul
* The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers:
"The Laws of History" on December 4, 2020 and
"A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• King, Carole
* Tapestry (album title used as metaphor): "Tapestry" on June 21, 2024
• Le Guin, Ursula K.
* The Left Hand of Darkness: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
* The Wizard of Earthsea: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Liu, Cixin
* The Three Body Problem: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Maier, Charles
* Consigning the Twentieth-Century to History: "Uncharted Territory" on April 12, 2024
and in "When Does History Become Ancient" on September 6, 2024
• Mandeville, Bernard
* The Fable of the Bees: "Smith, Sieyes, and Darwin" on August 5, 2022
• Mann, Charles
* 1491: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
* 1493: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Mantel, Hilary
* Wolf Hall (trilogy): "Historical Fiction and History" on June 18, 2021
• Marsh, George Perkins
* Man and Nature: “The Word for Our World is Forests” on December 24, 2020
• Mazlish, Bruce
* In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistory: "Unspoken Assumptions" on February 2, 2024
• McNeill, John
* Mosquito Empires:
"A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
and "Vox Polluli" on June 10, 2022
• Mieville, China
* Perdido Street Station: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Miller, Walter
* A Canticle for Liebowitz: "Revival of the Fittest" on May 6, 2022
• New York Times (NYT)
* 100 Years from Now, This is What We’ll Say Got Us Through the Pandemic":
"The Fallacy of Instant History" on April 14, 2023
* article on increased distribution of English-language novels:
"Linguistic Empire" on August 30, 2024
* article on exploitation of sugar workers in India: "Drugs in History" on April 12, 2024
* article on the Chinese Communist Party’s clamp down on entrepreneurial spirit: "Entitlements" on September 8, 2023
* article on the harmful effects of El Nino weather pattern:
"Entitlements" on September 8, 2023
• Older, Malka
* Infomacracy (first of “Centenal Cycle”): "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• O’Brien, Phillips
* How the War was Won: "Vox Polluli" on June 10, 2022
• Orwell, George
* 1984: "Little Brother is Watching" on March 25, 2022
• Pope Pius IX
* Qui pluribus (encyclical): "Too Early to Tell" on August 27, 2021
• Scott, James
* Against the Grain: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Scott, Walter
* Ivanhoe: "Historical Fiction and History" on June 18, 2021
• Shakespeare, William
* Richard II: "This Sceptered Isle" on May 16, 2025
• Shapin, Steven
* Leviathan and the Air-Pump: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
* The Scientific Revolution: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
* The Gulag Archipelago: "Stalingrad" on May 10, 2024
• Stephenson, Neal
* The Baroque Cycle: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
* Seveneves: "Revival of the Fittest" on May 6, 2022
* Snow Crash: "A Few Good SF Books" on January 28, 2022
• Tolstoy, Leo
* War and Peace: "Historical Fiction and History" on June 18, 2021
and "Stalingrad" on May 10, 2024
• Tuchman, Barbara W.
* The Guns of August: "A Few Good History Books" on September 17, 2021
• Vinge, Vernor
* Technological Singularity: "Age Expectancy and Horizons" on January 14, 2022
• Wilkerson, Isabel
* The Warmth of Other Suns: "Great Migration" on June 13, 2025
• Wills, Gary
* Lincoln at Gettysburg: "Gettysburg" on July 2, 2021
• Yates, Frances
* The Art of Memory: "Duelling AIs" on May 23, 2025
Authors/Thinkers/Figures cited or quoted:
• Adams, John, John Q, and Charles
• Agnew, Spiro
• d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
• Allman Brothers (The)
• Arendt, Hannah
• Aristotle
• Arne, Thomas
• Asimov, Isaac
• Ataturk, Kemal
• Attila
• Augustine
• Bacon, Francis
• Bakewell, Sarah
• Banks, Ian
• Bazalgette, Joseph
• Beard, Charles
• Biden, Joe
• Bismarck, Otto von
• Bloch, Ivan (Jan)
• Bloom, Harold
• Bobbit, Phillip
• Bolsonaro, Jair
• Bradbury, Ray
• Braverman, Suella
• Brennan, Justice William
• Bruce, Lenny
• Bryan, William Jennings (implied reference to Scopes Trial/anti-evolution)
• Burke, Peter
• Cain
• Caillaux, Henriette
• Card, Orson Scott
• Carlyle, Thomas
• Carson, Rachel
• Carville, James
• Cerda, Idelofonso
• Chaing, Ted
• Charles I
• Charles III
• Cher
• Chou En-lai
• Churchill, Winston
• Cicero
• Clark, Christopher
• Clarke, Arthur C.
• Cromwell, Oliver
• Cronkite, Walter
• Cronon, William
• D’Agostino, Tony
• Darnton, Robert
• Darwin, Charles
• Defoe, Daniel
• De Gaulle, Charles
• Deighton, Len
• De Maistre, Joseph
• Dickens, Charles
• Diderot, Denis
• Douglass, Frederick
• Duterte, Rodrigo
• Eden, Anthony
• Einstein, Albert
• Eliot, T.S.
• Elmore, A.E.
• Erdogan, Tacip
• Farage, Nigel
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh
• Fidel Castro
• Ford, Gerald
• Ford, Henry
• Foucault, Michel
• Franklin, Benjamin
• France, Anatole
• Frommer, Arthur
• Fussell, Paul
• Gandhi, Mohandas
• Gerry, Elbridge
• Getz, Trevor
• Godel, Kurt
• Gore, Al
• Graf, Jim
• Gray, John
• Grossman, Vasily
• Harari, Yuval
• Hartley, L.P.
• Hayakawa, S.I.
• Hegel, G.W.F.
• Heisenberg, Werner
• Herbert, Frank
• Henry VIII
• Hirschman, Albert O.
• Hitler, Adolf
• Ho Chi Minh
• Hobsbawm, Eric
• Hume, David
• Hutchinson, Dave
• Huxley, Aldous
• Ibbitson
• Irving, David
• James II
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Jemison, N.K.
• Joll, James
• Jones, Charles
• Kahneman, Daniel
• Kant, Immanuel
• Kay, Guy Gavriel
• Kelly, Amy
• Kennedy, John F.
• Kennedy, Paul
• Khan, Ghengiz
• Kierkegaard, Soren
• King, Carole
• Kissinger, Henry
• Koch, Robert
• Kurzweil, Ray
• Le Guin, Ursula K.
• Lenin, Vladimir
• Lewis, Sinclair
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Linnaeus, Carl
• Lippmann, Walter
• Lister, Joseph
• Liu, Cixin
• Locke, John
• Louis XIV
• Louis Napoleon
• Luther, Martin
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid
• Machiavelli
• Madison, James
• Maier, Charles
• Mandela, Nelson
• Mandeville, Bernard
• Mann, Charles
• Mantel, Hilary
• Mao Zedong
• Marsh, George Perkins
• Marx, Karl
• Marx, Groucho
• Mazlish, Bruce
• McNeill, John
• Mieville, China
• Miller, Walter
• Mohammed
• Montaigne, Michel de
• Montesquieu
• Musk, Elon
• Mussolini, Benito
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Nehru, Jawarhalal
• Newton, Isaac
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Nixon, Richard
• O’Brien, Phillips
• Older, Malka
• Orban, Viktor
• Orwell, George
• O’Sullivan, John
• Pasteur, Louis
• Patton, George
• Pence, Mike
• Piketty, Thomas
• Pinker, Steven
• Pius IX, Pope
• Plato
• Power, Samantha
• Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
• Putin, Vladimir
• Raleigh, Sir Walter
• Ranke, Leopold von
• Reagan, Ronald
• Renan, Ernst
• Robinson, Kim Stanley
• Robespierre, Maximillian
• Rock, Chris
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Sackler (family)
• Sandel, Michael
• Santayana, George
• Sartre, Jean-Paul
• Scott, James
• Scott, Walter
• Scott, George C.
• Serling, Rod
• Shakespeare, William
• Shapin, Steven
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe
• Sieyes, Emmanuel
• Smith, Adam
• Smith, Will
• Snow, John
• Solomon
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
• Stalin, Joseph
• Stephenson, George
• Stephenson, Neal
• Streisand, Barbra
• Sunak, Rishi
• Sun-Yat-Sen
• Swift, Taylor
• Tojo, Hideki
• Tolstoy, Leo
• Toqueville, Alexis de
• Truman, Harry S.
• Tuchman, Barbara W.
• Turchin, Peter
• Vinge, Vernor
• Victoria, Queen
• Voltaire
• Wallace, George
• Washington, George
• Webb, Jack
• Weber, Max
• Welles, Orson
• Weyrich, Paul
• Wilhelm II, Kaiser
• Wilkerson, Isabel
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Wills, Gary
• Woods, Rosemary
• Wordsworth, William
• Yates, Frances
• Zager and Evans (musical duo)
• Zoroaster
• Zuckerberg, Mark
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