Interesting article. I'd like to encourage people to read more stuff from her blog, it's absolutely excellent. I'm currently reading this piece[0] (teaser quot

Interesting article. I'd like to encourage people to read more stuff from her blog, it's absolutely excellent. I'm currently reading this piece[0] (teaser quote: "then, in the early seventeenth century, Francis Bacon invented progress."). Then there's the series ostensibly about Machiavelli[1], but that is actually a whirlwind tour of Italian renaissance history, philosophy, intrigue and eventually, yes, Machiavelli. [0] https://www.exurbe.com/on-progress-and-historical-change/ https://www.exurbe.com/on-progress-and-historical-change/ [1] https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/ https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/