What Patrick Wyman thinks about demographics
American historian with a PhD from the University of Southern California; host of the Tides of History podcast. Author of The Verge (2021) and Lost Worlds (2026). Writes Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future, a newsletter on archaeology and ancient and medieval history.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Patrick Wyman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIf populations are falling, mortality is rising or fertility is dropping, usually both, and neither of those options says much good about that society. If palaces are burning and populations are dropping, that doesn't seem like a gentle transformation into a more decentralized and less hierarchical society; it feels like a disaster, and we should be comfortable calling it one.
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