Game Theory #1: The Dating Game
In this Tuesday, January 6, 2026 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang introduces the concept of game theory, and how it applies to the dating game.
8 Huhti 49min
Civilization #END: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
In this final talk of the "Civilization" course, Jiang Xueqin explains the rise and fall of the American empire. At the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, America proposed that the dollar should be the wo...
8 Huhti 1h 6min
Civilization #59: The Man of Steel
How did a poor Georgian high school drop-out help lead a fringe and fanatical political party (the Bolsheviks) into absolute power in Russia? How was Stalin able to eliminate his competitors? How did ...
8 Huhti 1h 12min
Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State
Nationalism is the main cause of World War One. How and why did it originate?In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that nationalism was a response to religious, econo...
8 Huhti 1h 6min
Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything
Freud proposed the theory of the Oedipal Complex. Where did he get the idea? Why did it become so popular?In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that Freud developed h...
8 Huhti 1h 3min
Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong
Why was Karl Marx -- who believed that industrial capitalism would evolve into a worker's paradise -- wrong? In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that while Marx und...
8 Huhti 1h 16min
Civilization #55: Kant, Hegel, and the Theory of Everything
What is the legacy of Immanuel Kant, considered our greatest philosopher?In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that Kant's insights had a tremendous impact on the dev...
8 Huhti 1h 8min
Civilization #54: The German Will to Power
What explains the rise of Adolf Hitler?In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that Hitler was a manifestation of the German obsession with the unity of will. After the...
8 Huhti 1h 15min
