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The Past That Wasn't
Wrong Turns in Human History and How They Could Have Gone Right
By Rupert Read · Launched 7 months ago
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What if Al Gore had run on who he was and what he believed in 2000?
A convincing Democrat win changes history, not least on climate.
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What if Al Gore had run on who he was and what he believed in 2000?
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Not Determinism but Determination
An Introduction to Why Counter-Factual History Now
Rupert Read
Mar 5
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What if the 1983 UK General Election campaign had been a fortnight longer?
Would Thatcher have lost to the SDP/Liberal Alliance, with Labour a distant third?
Rupert Read
Feb 13
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What if…the republican ‘Liberators’ had won, defeating Mark Antony and Octavian (Augustus)?
Could the Roman Emperors have been prevented? The whole of European history (and moreover the history of applied political thought) looks different, if…
Rupert Read
Feb 7
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Why Counter-Histories?
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber. On this…
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Feb 7
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What If Bernie Sanders Won the Democratic Nomination in 2016?
By Rupert Read and Joe Eastoe
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Jan 25
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What If Bernie Sanders Won the Democratic Nomination in 2016?
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What if…Nietzsche had not gone mad?:
The course of recent Western philosophy would have been profoundly changed - also possibly the very course of history itself?
Rupert Read
Jan 25
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The Past That Wasn't is up and running
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Jan 9
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