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The host says the main challenge to American primacy is China rather than Russia, and that an uglier U.S. nationalism now frames China as the actor that took American strength away.
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Primacy
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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"...to use the word threat. But at least challenge to US primacy. Obviously is China. Now this is why also. The new nationalism emerging..."
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"But how do you see this. Playing out. Because a key concern now in the US. Is that they can't compete anymore. With China..."
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"...So what Donny is doing is he's trying to promote the primacy of poetry over everything else. Okay. Language. Okay. That doesn't make sense...."
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"...all right? So Dante, what he's doing is he's asserting the primacy of love. We don't need to obey others. We don't need the..."
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"...uh, you know, the international distribution being focused around us, global primacy legitimized, then by liberal democratic values, this world order, the post -cold..."
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"...based on... I think it was the war of the US primacy, now needs to find a whole new system on a balance of..."
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"...everyone recognizes that at least the U.S. attempting to impose its primacy has brought together these countries. But if the U.S. would end its..."
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"...woods to write full time. Okay? So, this is seemingly the primacy of writers over athletes. Okay? The smart over the brave. And the..."
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"...accomplish all three of these major challenges. It will establish the primacy of the July family as the first family of Rome."
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"...are the ones who are conservatives and who believe in the primacy of a Senate. So Cicero is right now in charge of the..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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