What seems clear is that we're not ready to declare a set of "laws of history". We're not even close. I think this can be parsed pretty easily by reading betwee

What seems clear is that we're not ready to declare a set of "laws of history". We're not even close. I think this can be parsed pretty easily by reading between the lines of basically every historian's response to grand unified theories of history like this, and the author of this piece clearly recognizes "cliodynamics" as hubris, despite all our seemingly impressive advancements in data analysis. I don't know if the scope of asserting this is fully appreciated. One of the most influential ideologies in history is based on the idea that certain laws of history were essentially cracked in the mid-1800s. Ctrl+F "Marx", 1 throwaway mention. "Hegel" 0 mentions.