Archive - Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future, by Patrick Wyman

American Gentry

Local Power and the Social Order

Sep 17, 2020 •

Ordinary People Do Terrible Things

Evil acts are easily normalized

Jan 16, 2024 •

"The Verge" is out today!

Please, please get my book!

Jul 20, 2021 •

Indo-Europeans and the Yamnaya Culture

Migration in Prehistory

May 20, 2021 •

Dragon Man Emerges

A new species of archaic human?

Jun 28, 2021 •

Bro Culture, Fitness, Chivalry, and American Identity

This is a foundational text of American Bro Culture: two large men shooting the shit about lifting weights, working in references from everything to…

Dec 3, 2020 •

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

I wrote a book!

Jul 15, 2021 •

Egypt Before the Pharaohs

Herders, cemeteries, and the body in the Nile Valley

Feb 11, 2021 •

How to Think About Climate Change

A Really, Really Long-Term Perspective

Dec 11, 2023 •

Welcome (Back) to Perspectives

Let's talk about some interesting stuff

Dec 7, 2023 •

Mass Murder in the Late Neolithic

A family meets a violent end in Poland, c. 2800 BC

Jun 3, 2021 •

Uruk and the Emergence of Civilization

The Invention of Cities, States, and Writing in Mesopotamia

Feb 18, 2021 •

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