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8/29/2025

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 here is a comprehensive list of the books, articles, and authors referred to:


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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