Predictive History lecture transcripts

Not transcribed yet: the Dante Seminar (Beijing, June 2026), Geo-Strategy and Emergency Discussion series. They're listed on the channel page, and their lectures will show transcripts as they're added.

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

• #1 The Dating Game
• #2 Why Schools Suck
• #3 Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• #10 The Law of Asymmetry
• #20 Mid-Term Examination
• #27 Putin Enters the Chat

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

• #3 The Religious Imagination
• #6 Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse
• #13 Aristotle and the Greek Legacy
• #21 The Apology of King David of Israel
• #32 Rome's Rise, Fall, and Legacy
• #33 The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire
• #34 The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire

• Secret History: #1 How Power Works, #3 Death by Gerontocracy, #7 Death by Meritocracy, #8 Death by Bureaucracy, #28 Pax Judaica
• Great Books (close readings from Homer to Dante): #1 Secrets of the Universe, #2 Homer and the Invention of the Human
• Global Meet-Up, each two and a half to three hours: The Eschatology of Capitalism, Canada's Corporate Re-Structuring, The Supremacy of Sin
• Geo-Strategy Update: Is Putin the Ubermensch?

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