Etymology as Autopsy: the Death of Culture.

The Lexical, Semantic and Historic Interdependence of Culture, Agriculture and the Cult.

Apr 30

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March 2026

The Napoleonic Ethic and the Spirit of the Continent.

Continental v. Maritime Ecology, the Balance of Power, & the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Mar 26 • Charles J. Whitten

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February 2026

Hitler I, Hitler II, & Hitler III.

The Political Economy of the Reformation & the Political Geography of Lebensraum. Reformation and Modernization Part VI.

Feb 24 • Charles J. Whitten

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Transitional Periods Through an Ecological Lens.

We don't yet know what a rational response to the twenty-first century is.

Feb 3 • Charles J. Whitten

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January 2026

War Finance and the Rise of the Modern State

Reformation & Modernization Part V: The Glorious and The Financial Revolution.

Jan 26 • Charles J. Whitten

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December 2025

R&M Part IV: Universalism & the English Origins of Modernity

Reformation and Modernization Part IV: On The BQ. (A Preface to Part V.)

Dec 17, 2025 • Charles J. Whitten

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R&M Part III: Trade Practices, Maritime Tendencies, and a Reformed Hegemon.

Reformation and Modernization Part III

Dec 10, 2025 • Charles J. Whitten

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November 2025

Synonymization of Genes & Culture

Why "nature vs nurture" is silly and stupid and dumb and wrong.

Nov 28, 2025 • Charles J. Whitten

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Reformation and Modernization Part II: Individualism, Capitalism, and the Industrial Revolution

Shaping the series with some prerequisite notions.

Nov 27, 2025 • Charles J. Whitten

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Reformation and Modernization Part I.I

An adjacent note as intermission: How Protestantism leads to Agnosticism.

Nov 23, 2025 • Charles J. Whitten

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Reformation and Modernization Part I: Puritanism & Americanism.

Religion in Relation to Politics.

Nov 17, 2025 • Charles J. Whitten

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