Is warfare getting less likely? Are we entering a new and more peaceful era of history? Quite a few people -- Steven Pinker and Niall Ferguson among them -- have suggested as much. But the mathematics of war statistics over the past 2,000 years doesn't back up the idea. At Bloomberg, I have
a short piece describing some excellent new work by Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Taleb. Also,
more detail over at Medium.
