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He answers Jack that distrust of universities comes mostly from people left out of the university system, especially the right, although he notes dissenting faculty and students inside universities.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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He uses his own post-2016 left-liberal trauma and his friends' anger at any positive statement about Trump to illustrate that Trump brings out the worst in people.
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Jiang locates his own politics in left commitments: wealth redistribution, free speech, antiwar politics, anti-empire, and individual autonomy.
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Jiang says people would now likely consider him far right despite his left self-description.
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Jiang says the American left has consumed itself through woke ideology, establishment alignment, and lockdown-era behavior, leaving it with little credibility.
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"I know what Netanyahu says. We're in agreement on how bad Netanyahu is and how expansionist he is. I'm talking about the language you..."
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"I believe I've always been on the left. So I believe that wealth redistribution is very important. I believe in freedom of speech. I..."
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"I mean, these past few decades, the left has done a tremendous job in consuming itself and destroying itself through wake through ideology, through..."
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"...trust universities? And the answer, of course, are people who are left out of the system, right? So people who don't actually go to..."
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"...of the total population, okay? Most universities have become extremely, extremely left -wing, okay? Any more questions before I move on? Okay, all right...."
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"...be honest with you. Okay? I am very much on the left. Okay? I think like a person on the left. Now, my values..."
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"But, you know, I still have these liberal friends. And the moment we talk about Trump, if I say anything nice about Trump, which..."
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"...the third hour. So many were the hours of light still left before the course of day had reached sunset. Vespers was there and..."
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"...life so i'll just write these visions down and i'll be left alone so i write these visions down okay and when i'm writing..."
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"...things, learned of its inborn freedom, the bequest that thus they left unto the world is ethics. Even if we allow necessity as source..."
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"...And, um, the siren is like a love that has been left to fester. And that's why it, that's why it smells. Okay."
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"...by example, brings her not to evil, and she alone is left to me beyond."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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