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By this point Jiang thinks the hardest interpretive work was Paradise, so Inferno should now be simple enough to support more active student contribution.
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"the seminar and we will teach it to someone else okay it could be it give you your students because your teachers but it..."
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"other punishments right okay so I'll be doing more of these pedagogical techniques and then I'm going to trameration the deck on bothijdos right..."
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"...time they're with us, so that there's strength to surmount any difficulty. Okay? So our strategy is not to make, you know, a billion..."
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"...for this war, it's very hard for us to appreciate the difficulty of coming to a ceasefire, okay? So I'm going to present to..."
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"...you're to come, then there might be, there might be some difficulties, but we can meet up somewhere else, you know, like Malaysia, Malaysia,..."
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"...can't believe and I think it's hard to imagine how much difficulty and how traumatic it's been being an Iranian right now."
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"...agenda is, is going very slowly and with a lot of difficulties. And then all it takes is for people, you know, like when..."
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"...do in the united states uh but also i mean the difficulty of taking taiwan the island is going to be extremely hard and..."
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"...like guerrilla warfare. And historically, an imperial power has had great difficulties in containing guerrilla warfare. So unfortunately, the Americans don't have a long..."
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"...was a huge component of the way people have dealt with difficulties and maintained social cohesion for decades now, centuries really. And that shows..."
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"...as I understand it, that the U.S. government would have considerable difficulty toppling the current government of Iran and that it would be more..."
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"...of Toulouse and Sidonia. In a season of great danger and difficulty, had exercised the power of the archbishop. Sidonia, for a series of..."
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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