Glossary
Calvinist reformers who wanted to purge Catholic features from the Church of England rather than simply leave it.
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Puritans
Calvinist reformers who wanted to purge Catholic features from the Church of England rather than simply leave it.
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He explains British success in North America as unusually bottom-up and settler-driven, especially through Jamestown persistence and Boston Puritan family settlement.
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Theatre in Shakespeare's England was both mass entertainment and mass education, which made it politically dangerous enough for elite suspicion and Puritan prohibition.
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Jiang says America was founded by pilgrims seeking to build a kingdom of heaven on earth, while Puritans stayed in England and fought the Civil War.
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Puritans are defined as reformers who want to purge Catholic remnants from the Church of England while staying inside or reshaping it.
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Puritans carried monastic asceticism into everyday life, making the entire world into a monastery and building the modern economic order.
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He models the culture war as a conflict between two American founding strands: a Christian nation under God's law and a deist-Enlightenment project of reason, secularism, and multicultural empire.
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Jiang says English dissenters and Puritans came into conflict with the king because they treated the Bible as supreme authority and believed it imposed rules that challenged establishment power.
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"So there are three major nations that are trying to colonize North America. You have the French. And what they will do is they..."
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"...And then third of all, the people who come over are Puritans. Puritans, as we discussed previously, they believe in the importance of literacy...."
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"But if it's musical, then it's easy to remember because it becomes like a song, right? It's really easy for us to remember songs...."
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"They hate alcohol, they hate fun, they hate theatre, especially theatre. They hate Shakespeare. So they banned it. So during this time, Shakespeare is..."
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"...of change, okay? And these group of people we call the Puritans, okay? The Puritans. But then you have a minority who are extremely..."
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"...divided into two major factions at this time. You have the Puritans. Who are the Puritans? The Puritans believe that the Church of England..."
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"...nobles. But there's also a religious dimension to it because the Puritans want to impose a religious state Okay? So the fanatics at this..."
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"So when you have a diversity, you have diversity in England, and so even though England is a small place, as I keep on..."
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"...wanted to deny the world, you went into a monastery. The Puritans made the entire world into a monastery, okay? And began to dominate..."
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"...the laws of God, okay? These are the pilgrims and the Puritans, okay? And we've discussed them before. And they've always been there, okay?..."
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"believe that reason should be the god of human affairs okay and these were the founding fathers okay the founding fathers believed in something..."
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"...to something called the English Civil War, where the dissenters, the Puritans, killed the king. Okay? But then the king was reestablished. And so..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the coming U.S.-Iran conflict is not only empire and alliance pressure.
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