The Two Red Yearsvetted
Italy's two red years — the factory councils of Turin, the occupation of September 1920, the agrarian counter-revolution, and the road to the March on Rome.
Caral: The First City of the Americasvetted
Master what we actually know about Caral and the Caral-Supe (Norte Chico) civilization — the 5,000-year-old cities of coastal Peru — and learn, from zero, the archaeology needed to weigh the evidence: how sites are…
The Case Against the Voter — An Active-Recall Minicourse
A steelman minicourse on the strongest arguments against the competence of the ordinary voter — and what they imply for democracy.
Distritos de Lima — Juego de mapa
How Money Learned to Float
Follow money from stone discs and wooden sticks, through the accidental rise and violent fall of the gold standard, to the pure fiat world we live in now — and the MMT argument about what a money-issuing government…
Is It Wrong to Lend at Interest? — A Course
The ethics, economics, and alternatives of lending at interest — from the ancient prohibition through the liberal defense to modern finance.
Merchants and Revolution — Active Recall Course
A chapter-by-chapter active-recall course on Robert Brenner's Merchants and Revolution — how capitalism came about in England, through its merchants and politics.
The Case Against the Voter
The arguments against voter competence, in their best versions — what each one actually establishes, what it assumes, and which survives the strongest defense.
Energy and the English Industrial Revolution: A Guided Course
Master the argument, data, and scholarly debates of E. A. Wrigley’s Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (2010) — from the limits of organic economies to the coal-powered escape — one chapter (or…