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Jiang closes by telling the class this is his last school session, that he will continue teaching, and that two weeks from now he will livestream Dante to a global audience.
Jiang says the planned livestream series is an experiment meant to form the basis of a school community, beginning with a founding-member livestream and then a later livestream for paid subscribers.
Jiang says all livestream content will eventually be uploaded to YouTube, but live participation itself will remain limited to founding members or paid subscribers.
He plans to run a two-week public livestream seminar on Dante's Divine Comedy in June, reading the whole work line by line because he regards it as the greatest literary work ever and universally valuable.
He says the Dante seminar is scheduled for mid-to-late June 2026 at the Yale Beijing Center, with a small in-person cohort and a global livestream for broader participation.
Alexander describes the livestream as phenomenal and unusually erudite while still closely related to the Duran's normal discussions.
"Why? Because he spent years interviewing these people and to draw out the sparks of light from the universe. And when you do that,..."
"Yeah, great. So yeah, exactly. I'm very excited about our future. First live stream, which is scheduled for next Sunday at 9 a.m. in..."
"All live streams will be eventually uploaded to my YouTube. YouTube channel, so no one will miss the content. But during the live stream,..."
"Yeah. So, I don't know. I'm going to leave the school at the end of my contract, which expires in June. And I'm going..."
"...like 10 to 20 students. But the main point is we'll livestream it to the world so that if you're just interested in Dante,..."
"well it's a phenomenal live stream and what an erudite one and a different from the ones we do but also very closely related..."
"...their questions. Starting next week, I will do a monthly Substack livestream with both founding members as well as paid subscribers."
"...I still want to be a student. If you have that livestream series, I don't know if that's going to be in front of..."
"And I think everyone who follows the livestream will feel empowered to confront the Divine Comedy by himself or herself. It's a really, really..."
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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...
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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