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Jiang says Malcolm X's autobiography is his favorite book of all time and that it shaped a great deal of his philosophy at a young age.
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Favorite book
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"...he finds God and then he is assassinated. Exactly. That's my favorite book of all time. Yes. That autobiography shaped a lot of my..."
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"...in the standard Holocaust narrative. And, you know, one of my favorite books is actually Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. It's a fantastic book...."
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"...John Wineham, The Day of the Trifids, is one of my favorite books. Isaac Asimov, I absorbed, I read all of his books because..."
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"...iliad in the odyssey and believe it or not the student's favorite book was the iliad and this was written maybe 3 000 years..."
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"...a fantastic book by the way. It's, it's one of my favorite books. Definitely the, considered the greatest work of political philosophy in the..."
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"...the students, and we read many books, and by far, their favorite book was the Iliad, okay? So, think about this, how a Greek..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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