Putin's Strategic Imagination
Professor Jiang explains Putin's strategic genius:In February 2022 Putin invaded Ukraine. At first, the war did not go well, and the United States had a three-point plan to defeat Putin:1.) Equip Ukra...
25 Touko 1h 5min
The Second American Civil War
Professor Jiang explores how and why America would fight a second Civil War:Right now, America is suffering three trends that make civil war more and more likely:a.) Increasing political polarization ...
25 Touko 1h 8min
Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)
Professor Jiang Xueqin concludes his Geo-Strategy course by discussing how to use AI to chart a better future for humanity:In his Foundation series, Isaac Asimov introduces the science of psychohistor...
25 Touko 1h 11min
Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture
Professor Jiang Xueqin explains why humans adopted agriculture.We now know that there were many consequences due to the transition to agriculture. Hunter-gatherers had an easier, more healthier, and l...
25 Touko 52min
The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe
Homo sapiens originated in Africa 300,000 years ago, and for the vast majority of our history we were egalitarian, peaceful, and artistic. So where did concepts of patriarchy, war, and private propert...
25 Touko 41min
Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse
Why the Bronze Age collapsed.In the year 1200 BCE the world was globalized and prosperous. Nations shared people, ideas, and goods. A few decades later, the Bronze Age collapsed. Mycenaean Greece and ...
25 Touko 53min
Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization
The Greeks were humanity's most creative civilization. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are timeless classics, Plato's The Republic continues to inspire, and Thucydides are still read by military officers in...
25 Touko 47min
Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War
In his book The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides explains that the war started because Sparta saw Athens as a threat to its hegemony. In this talk Jiang Xueqin argues that the American scientist James Ca...
25 Touko 1h 9min
