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• When the Victim Speaks

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  Part 2 of the Mimetic Field Guide: How the Bible turns myth inside-out, the radical shift when victims testify, and why modern crowds still flinch from its implications.
• The Operating System Beneath Our Arguments

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  A field manual to the hidden engine converting human wants into sacrificial rituals we call justice.
• Against the Gods: Dancing With The Unknown

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  In this final installment of our Risk Series, we reflect on the far-reaching themes of “Against the Gods,” from the measure of our ignorance and radical new views of uncertainty to the uncharted frontiers of behavioral finance, derivatives, and beyond.
• Against the Gods: Mastering Uncertainty

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  In Part 2 of our Risk Series, we delve deeper into how pioneering mathematicians, the birth of insurance, and modern portfolio theory transformed risk from a nebulous concept into a quantifiable asset—and why even our best models sometimes fail.
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Notion of Risk

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  Launching a series on how humanity gradually overcame fatalism and mysticism to develop the modern concept of risk.