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Predictive History

Professor Jiang XueqinYouTube

Lecture courses on civilization, power, game theory and the great books, taught as numbered series with mid-terms and finals.

10 series178 lectures44 hours40 transcribed

22% transcribed Start with Civilization

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The Supremacy of Sin3:06:57

The Supremacy of Sin

Global Meet-Up #6 · added Oct 18, 2026

Canada's Corporate Re-Structuring2:35:19

Canada's Corporate Re-Structuring

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The Eschatology of Capitalism2:35:30

The Eschatology of Capitalism

Global Meet-Up #3 · added Aug 30, 2026

US-Iran War, World Cup1:26:08

US-Iran War, World Cup

Livestreams and Extras #2 · added Jul 18, 2026

Homer and the Invention of the Human36:56

Homer and the Invention of the Human

Great Books #2 · added Jul 5, 2026

Putin Enters the Chat1:12:53

Putin Enters the Chat

Game Theory #27 · added May 21, 2026

Trump Visits China1:13:28

Trump Visits China

Game Theory #25 · added May 14, 2026

The WWIII Chessboard1:00:27

The WWIII Chessboard

Game Theory #23 · added May 7, 2026

Syllabus

The Story of Civilization

61 lectures · 7 transcribed · 7.2 hours

The core course: sixty lectures from the transition to agriculture to the decline of the American empire.

  1. #1Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculturenot yetYouTube ↗
  2. #2Religion and the Dawn of Societynot yetYouTube ↗
  3. #3The Religious Imagination 56:53
  4. #4The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutasnot yetYouTube ↗
  5. #5The Yamnaya Conquest of Europenot yetYouTube ↗
  6. #6Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse 53:39
  7. #7Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilizationnot yetYouTube ↗
  8. #8Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian Warnot yetYouTube ↗
  9. #9Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracynot yetYouTube ↗
  10. #10The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cavenot yetYouTube ↗
  11. #11The Greatness of Philip II of Macedonnot yetYouTube ↗
  12. #12The Tyranny of Alexander the Greatnot yetYouTube ↗
  13. #13Aristotle and the Greek Legacy 54:38
  14. #14Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Romenot yetYouTube ↗
  15. #15The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesarnot yetYouTube ↗
  16. #16Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empirenot yetYouTube ↗
  17. #17Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Romenot yetYouTube ↗
  18. #18The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Projectnot yetYouTube ↗
  19. #19Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortalitynot yetYouTube ↗
  20. #20The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilizationnot yetYouTube ↗
  21. #21The Apology of King David of Israel 1:11:25
  22. #22The Literary Genesis of the Yahwistnot yetYouTube ↗
  23. #23Cyrus the Great as Messiahnot yetYouTube ↗
  24. #24Resurrecting the Gnostic Jesusnot yetYouTube ↗
  25. #25Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Romenot yetYouTube ↗
  26. #26Constantine's Monotheistic Revolutionnot yetYouTube ↗
  27. #27Augustine's Empire of Godnot yetYouTube ↗
  28. #28Muhammad's Revolution of Godnot yetYouTube ↗
  29. #29Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imaginationnot yetYouTube ↗
  30. #30Dante as the Second Coming of Homernot yetYouTube ↗
  31. #31The Oceanic Currents of Historynot yetYouTube ↗
  32. #32Rome's Rise, Fall, and Legacy 1:06:35
  33. #33The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire 1:05:36
  34. #34The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire 1:04:06
  35. #35The Viking Legacynot yetYouTube ↗
  36. #36Memory of the Norsenot yetYouTube ↗
  37. #37The Golden Age of Islamnot yetYouTube ↗
  38. #38Twilight of the Middle Kingdomnot yetYouTube ↗
  39. #39Genghis Khan, World Shatterernot yetYouTube ↗
  40. #40Church and Empirenot yetYouTube ↗
  41. #41Dante's Quiet Revolutionnot yetYouTube ↗
  42. #42The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalismnot yetYouTube ↗
  43. #43The Structure of Scientific Revolutionsnot yetYouTube ↗
  44. #44The Spanish Conquest of the New Worldnot yetYouTube ↗
  45. #45The Gunpowder Revolutionnot yetYouTube ↗
  46. #46The Revolution of Reasonnot yetYouTube ↗
  47. #47The Passion of Robespierrenot yetYouTube ↗
  48. #48Napoleon's Empire of Mythnot yetYouTube ↗
  49. #49The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Classnot yetYouTube ↗
  50. #50Rule, Britannia!not yetYouTube ↗
  51. #51Shakespeare's Language of Empirenot yetYouTube ↗
  52. #52Empire of Democracynot yetYouTube ↗
  53. #53Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russianot yetYouTube ↗
  54. #54The German Will to Powernot yetYouTube ↗
  55. #55Kant, Hegel, and the Theory of Everythingnot yetYouTube ↗
  56. #56What Marx Got Wrongnot yetYouTube ↗
  57. #57How Modernism Ruined Everythingnot yetYouTube ↗
  58. #58Birth of the Nation-Statenot yetYouTube ↗
  59. #59The Man of Steelnot yetYouTube ↗
  60. ENDThe Decline and Fall of the American Empirenot yetYouTube ↗
  61. BONUSMeet Professor Jiangnot yetYouTube ↗

Secret History

28 lectures · 5 transcribed · 5.8 hours

How power actually works, from the collapse of societies to the empires that run the present.

  1. #1How Power Works 1:11:14
  2. #2How Societies Collapsenot yetYouTube ↗
  3. #3Death by Gerontocracy 49:19
  4. #4How Evil Triumphsnot yetYouTube ↗
  5. #5The Birth of Evilnot yetYouTube ↗
  6. #6The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised)not yetYouTube ↗
  7. #7Death by Meritocracy 1:04:52
  8. #8Death by Bureaucracy 1:03:16
  9. #9The Theory of Everythingnot yetYouTube ↗
  10. #10The Conspiracy of Evilnot yetYouTube ↗
  11. #11Dawn of the Human Imaginationnot yetYouTube ↗
  12. #12Heaven on Earthnot yetYouTube ↗
  13. #13Mandate of Heavennot yetYouTube ↗
  14. #14Legacy of the Steppesnot yetYouTube ↗
  15. #15Capital and the Bronze Age Collapsenot yetYouTube ↗
  16. #16The Big Bang of Greek Civilizationnot yetYouTube ↗
  17. #17Literary Genesisnot yetYouTube ↗
  18. #18Thus Spoke Zarathustranot yetYouTube ↗
  19. #19Dawn of the Jewsnot yetYouTube ↗
  20. #20The Hellenistic Worldnot yetYouTube ↗
  21. #21Roman Anti-Civilizationnot yetYouTube ↗
  22. #22The Divine Spark of Jesusnot yetYouTube ↗
  23. #23The Organization of Evilnot yetYouTube ↗
  24. #24Empire of Churchnot yetYouTube ↗
  25. #25Capital of Evilnot yetYouTube ↗
  26. #26Faith of Evilnot yetYouTube ↗
  27. #27Empire of Evilnot yetYouTube ↗
  28. ENDPax Judaica 1:39:17

Game Theory

29 lectures · 21 transcribed · 20 hours

Strategy for ordinary life: dating, school, money and war, with a mid-term and a final examination.

  1. #1The Dating Game 49:33
  2. #2Why Schools Suck 49:05
  3. #3Rich Dad, Poor Dad 53:33
  4. #4The Immigration Trap 46:17
  5. #5The World Game 57:16
  6. #6The World's Banknot yetYouTube ↗
  7. #7America's Game 48:31
  8. #8Communist Specter 55:25
  9. #9The US-Iran War 45:25
  10. #10The Law of Asymmetry 53:36
  11. #11The Law of Escalationnot yetYouTube ↗
  12. #12The Law of Eschatological Convergencenot yetYouTube ↗
  13. #13Epstein's World 50:00
  14. #14The Law of Proximity 50:25
  15. #15The Return of History 49:41
  16. #16Pax Judaica Risingnot yetYouTube ↗
  17. #17The Great Reset 58:23
  18. #18Trump World Order 48:38
  19. #19The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex 54:26
  20. #20Mid-Term Examination 1:23:06
  21. #21World War Trump 58:47
  22. #22Twilight of the Nation-State 55:55
  23. #23The WWIII Chessboard 1:00:27
  24. #24The AI Apocalypsenot yetYouTube ↗
  25. #25Trump Visits China 1:13:28
  26. #26The Holy Empire of AInot yetYouTube ↗
  27. #27Putin Enters the Chat 1:12:53
  28. #28Predictive Historynot yetYouTube ↗
  29. #29Final Examinationnot yetYouTube ↗

Great Books

13 lectures · 2 transcribed · 1.4 hours

Close readings from Homer to Dante.

  1. #1Secrets of the Universe 45:18
  2. #2Homer and the Invention of the Human 36:56
  3. #3Poets and Prophetsnot yetYouTube ↗
  4. #4The Conscious Universenot yetYouTube ↗
  5. #5The Odysseynot yetYouTube ↗
  6. #6The Intimacy of Lovenot yetYouTube ↗
  7. #7The Anti-Homernot yetYouTube ↗
  8. #8The Poetry of Empirenot yetYouTube ↗
  9. #9Dantenot yetYouTube ↗
  10. #10Dante's Hierarchy of Hellnot yetYouTube ↗
  11. #11Dante's Revolutionnot yetYouTube ↗
  12. #12Dante in Paradisenot yetYouTube ↗
  13. #13Gay Talese's Sparks of Lightnot yetYouTube ↗

Dante Seminar (Beijing, June 2026)

12 lectures · 0 transcribed · 0 min

Twelve four-hour seminar sessions through Paradise, Hell and Purgatory.

  1. #1Paradise Cantos 1-5not yetYouTube ↗
  2. #2Paradise Cantos 5-7not yetYouTube ↗
  3. #3Paradise Cantos 11, 12, 17, 24not yetYouTube ↗
  4. #4Paradise Cantos 24-29not yetYouTube ↗
  5. #5Paradise Cantos 30-33, Hell Cantos 1-2not yetYouTube ↗
  6. #6Hell Cantos 3-9not yetYouTube ↗
  7. #7Hell Cantos 10-19not yetYouTube ↗
  8. #8Hell Cantos 20-32not yetYouTube ↗
  9. #9Hell Cantos 32-34, Purgatory Cantos 1-4not yetYouTube ↗
  10. #10Purgatory Cantos 5-14not yetYouTube ↗
  11. #11Purgatory Cantos 15-25not yetYouTube ↗
  12. #12Final: Purgatory Cantos 26-33not yetYouTube ↗

Geo-Strategy

12 lectures · 0 transcribed · 0 min

Iran, Zionism, empire and the second American civil war, ending in psychohistory.

  1. #1Iran's Strategy Matrixnot yetYouTube ↗
  2. #2Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflictnot yetYouTube ↗
  3. #3How Empire is Destroying Americanot yetYouTube ↗
  4. #4Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Irannot yetYouTube ↗
  5. #5Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP)not yetYouTube ↗
  6. #6America's Imperial Hubrisnot yetYouTube ↗
  7. #7Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi?not yetYouTube ↗
  8. #8The Iran Trapnot yetYouTube ↗
  9. #9Putin's War for the Soul of Russianot yetYouTube ↗
  10. #10Putin's Strategic Imaginationnot yetYouTube ↗
  11. #11The Second American Civil Warnot yetYouTube ↗
  12. ENDPsychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)not yetYouTube ↗

Global Meet-Up

7 lectures · 3 transcribed · 8.3 hours

City lectures recorded on the 2026 tour: Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Toronto and Montreal.

  1. #1Tokyo: Japan's Geo-Political Outlooknot yetYouTube ↗
  2. #2Los Angeles: The "End of the World" US Tournot yetYouTube ↗
  3. #3New York City: The Eschatology of Capitalism 2:35:30
  4. #4Austin, Texas: American Prophecynot yetYouTube ↗
  5. #5Toronto: Canada's Corporate Re-Structuring 2:35:19
  6. #6Montreal: The Supremacy of Sin 3:06:57
  7. #7Toronto: The Rupturenot yetYouTube ↗