#  @predictivehistory Predictive History Predictive History posts on YouTube about beijing, history, secret, civilization the most. 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Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezra Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) [--]. Book of Nehemiah Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I) 2025-11-18T16:29Z 1.2M followers, 634.5K engagements "Game Theory #6: The World's Bank In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the British empire evolved into an offshore financial system" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo) 2026-01-22T05:55Z 1.2M followers, 529.2K engagements "Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World How did a few thousand Spanish Conquistadors subdue and conquer millions of Aztecs Incas and Mayans. Most scholars believe it's a combination of superior Spanish military technology spreading of deadly infectious diseases and internal tribal conflict that led to the demise of once powerful empires. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was the religious practices and beliefs of the native peoples of Central and South America that made them vulnerable to invasion and conquest. The natives had a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA) 2025-04-08T05:31Z 1.2M followers, 69.9K engagements "Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization The Greeks were humanity's most creative civilization. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are timeless classics Plato's The Republic continues to inspire and Thucydides are still read by military officers in search of strategic insights. Why were the Greeks so creative Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students there are three main factors: 1.) the polis 2.) the alphabet 3.) Homer After the destruction of Mycenaean Greece at the end of the Bronze Age Greece became divided into thousands of diverse city-states that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ) 2024-10-10T05:34Z 1.2M followers, 125.9K engagements "Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe What are the Great Books In this introductory lecture Professor Jiang explains that the Great Books are meant to help us achieve our true human potential by revealing the secrets of the universe. This semester Professor Jiang will discuss five Great Books: [--]. The Iliad by Homer [--]. The Odyssey by Homer [--]. The Republic by Plato [--]. The Aeneid by Vergil [--]. The Divine Comedy by Dante" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A) 2026-01-07T08:51Z 1.2M followers, 480.7K engagements "Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer created Greek civilization. Reference: [--]. "Defense of Poetry" by Percy Shelley" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w) 2026-01-21T06:47Z 1.2M followers, 128.3K engagements "Game Theory #8: Communist Specter In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the origins of Communism. Notes and References: [--]. "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels [--]. "Wall Street and the Russian Revolution" by Richard B. Spence" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q) 2026-01-29T04:55Z 1.2M followers, 222.9K engagements "Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great We celebrate Alexander the Great as one of the greatest conquerors of history. What motivated him Was he truly a strategic genius What is his ultimate legacy In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin presents a revisionist understanding of Alexander the Great. He argues that Alexander was first and foremost motivated to prove he was better than his father. With his boundless ambition he could not find peace until he had conquered the whole world" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y) 2024-10-29T09:30Z 1.2M followers, 125.2K engagements "Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong Why was Karl Marx -- who believed that industrial capitalism would evolve into a worker's paradise -- wrong In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that while Marx understood the ills of capitalism he failed to appreciate the psychology of people. People strive for religious community not economic equality. We want to connect with God and we seek status. That's why those countries that did succeed in their communist revolutions devolved into theocracies dominated by cults of personalities. References: [--]. The Communist" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk) 2025-05-29T08:05Z 1.2M followers, 291.4K engagements "Civilization #40: Church and Empire What were the Crusades Why did they start Why did they end In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explores the history of Europe's late middle ages. He shows that while the Roman Catholic Church was dominant there were still challenges to its authority. Muslims controlled the Holy Land Muslim Iberia was more wealthy and innovative and the Orthodox Church claimed sovereignty. As well Catholic clerics were considered corrupt which led to widespread dissent. In [----] Pople Urban II hoped to channel his flock's religious energy and direct" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw) 2025-03-20T06:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #9: It's Time to Fight In this video Professor Jiang shares a personal traumatic incident. On Sunday August [--] [----] he was detained at a Toronto public pool because the staff suspected him of child abuse. Ultimately the police cleared him of any wrongdoing. He plans to file a lawsuit for three reasons: [--]. He believes that as a matter of principle he has to show his children that he will fight to protect them. [--]. He believes that the staff behaved the way they did because of certain stereotypes they held about Asian people. [--]. He believes that this is yet another example of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3bhzgjqbgko) 2025-08-15T13:33Z 428K followers, 57.5K engagements "Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason This video begins a three-part series on the French Revolution. The over-arching thesis is that the French Revolution was a religious crusade and it was made successful by the contributions of three geniuses. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the Poet of the Revolution who dreamed of a better world based on Reason. Maximilien De Robespierre was the Prophet who had the courage and conviction to lead his people into this new world. Napoleon Bonaparte was the Prince who had the skill and resolve to conquer this new world and make the world bend to his vision." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o) 2025-04-22T06:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains that an American invasion of Iran would be a catastrophic mistake: If Trump were to win a second term he would likely contemplate invading Iran. While an initial invasion would seem successful American forces would quickly become bogged down in Iran's mountainous terrain. The American invasion would be similar to Athens' invasion of Sicily in [---] BCE as described in Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War. Despite its initial successes the Athenians couldn't re-supply themselves and their entire expedition was wiped out." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo) 2024-05-29T06:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Civilization BONUS: Meet the Students After sixty classes covering the entire span of human history what have Professor Jiang's students learned Meet three of Professor Jiang's students (Echo Amber and Siqi) who will answer the following questions: [--]. What were their most memorable experiences taking this class [--]. How has this class changed their outlook on themselves their society and the world [--]. What are their future plans and how will they contribute to the betterment of the world" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GDqkhdWW5CA) 2025-06-12T07:55Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains how the Dutch Golden Age gave birth to the Middle Class. With the transition from feudalism to market economics and from Catholicism to Calvinism people changed their focus from accumulating status to accumulating wealth. This created the concept of "class." This concept brought with it certain pathologies (fears of disorder failure and germs) that expressed themselves in the Middle Class obsessions with money art and materialism. With his paintings" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ) 2025-05-06T06:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer In this final talk of the semester to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains the enduring influence of Dante. Dante recognized that if he is to succeed in birthing a new European mind he must displace Vergil's Aeneid. To do this Dante makes Vergil into his guide and Vergil reveals that he is an unreliable narrator. At the beginning of their epic journey Vergil insists to Dante that only the baptized can enter Heaven. Those who were virtuous and but were not baptized -- such as Vergil -- must remain in limbo. Once in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM) 2025-01-14T04:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Civilization #57 How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) (This is a re-upload which fixed the audio. Much thanks to Gabriel Bessa for volunteering to fix the issue -- I can't thank him enough.) Freud proposed the theory of the Oedipal Complex. Where did he get the idea Why did it become so popular In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Freud developed his psychological theories in order to protect the interests of the powerful. His protege Carl Jung would take Freud's theory of the unconscious and turn it into a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY) 2025-06-04T14:18Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy Oscar Wilde once quipped: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between." What did he mean by this In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that America in its attempt to become an "enlightened" civilization ultimately became an anti-civilization. Civilizations have history culture and values and therefore they have prejudices. These prejudices often lead to conformity stagnation and close-mindedness. America was a diverse open society that was determined to embrace its" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I) 2025-05-15T12:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre The French Revolution allowed for the meteoric rise of an idealistic provincial lawyer. During the Reign of Terror Robespierre could have been king but ultimately fell to the guillotine like thousands of his victims. What explains his spectacular rise and fall In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Robespierre saw himself as the Prophet of the French Revolution and was determined to achieve the Revolution no matter what. For the weak and oppressed Robespierre became Jesus and as such he would come to share the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI) 2025-04-24T05:33Z 311K followers, [----] engagements "Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon In this talk Jiang Xueqin examines how Philip II of Macedon turned his kingdom from a poor and weak nation into the military hegemony that would conquer Persia. In his youth Philip was a hostage at Thebes where he studied the military innovations that made Thebes into the dominant military power in Greece at that time. He learned that with enough training and discipline an army could achieve the mobility co-ordination and flexibility necessary to dominate others. He inspired loyalty among his men with his bravery fair-mindedness and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE) 2024-10-24T04:46Z 733K followers, 40.6K engagements "Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State Nationalism is the main cause of World War One. How and why did it originate In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that nationalism was a response to religious economic and cultural challenges in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Protestant Reformation produced a crisis of faith in people and many made the nation-state into their new religion. The Industrial Revolution made the bourgeoisie the new dominant elite and they demanded property rights that only the nation-state could guarantee. Rapid" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw) 2025-06-05T08:48Z 351K followers, 17.1K engagements "Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses the example of immigration to illustrate how games are rigged. Notes and References: "What Makes You Click: Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating" (MIT Sloan Working Paper February 2006) Download the paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=895442" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g) 2026-01-15T05:49Z 1.2M followers, 350.3K engagements "Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything Where did we come from Why are we here Where are we going Scientists tell us they have all the solutions. The Big Bang Theory Evolution and Neuroscience reveal a random material and emergent universe. But there are fundamental problems with all three theories. What is dark energy How did we make the evolutionary leap from ape to human Where does consciousness come from In this Wednesday October [--] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a theory of everything that places mind before matter. Notes and References: [--]. The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA) 2025-10-15T10:02Z 1.2M followers, 686K engagements "Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture In this first lecture Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students why humans adopted agriculture. We now know that there were many consequences due to the transition to agriculture. Hunter-gatherers had an easier more healthier and less disease-prone life. So why did humans make this sacrifice Though there are many explanations most scholars believe that it was the religious impulse that drove humans to choose a sedentary life as evidenced by the archaeological sites of Gobekli Tepe Jericho and Catal Hoyuk" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0) 2024-08-29T05:58Z 1.2M followers, 382.4K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Isaac Newton founded Christian Zionism which is driving the conflict in the Middle East today. If you want to better understand this topic here are some suggestions for further reading: [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16878 [--]. The Scofield Bible: https://www.bethelbaptistlondon.com/Scofield%20Continuous.pdf [--]. Christian Zionism wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism [--]. Dispensationalism" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM) 2025-06-28T22:01Z 1.2M followers, 366.7K engagements "Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave In [---] BCE the Athenian people condemned Socrates to drink hemlock. In this lecture to Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin examines the significance and legacy of the trial of Socrates. During his lifetime Socrates enjoyed exposing Athens' leading intellectuals. He became so notorious that the satirist Aristophanes ridiculed him in a play. Socrates had many admirers though. A group of young aristocrats -- including Plato and Alcibiades -- became his devoted pupils. In [---] BCE the Thirty Tyrants (some of whom were" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k) 2024-10-22T09:21Z 1.2M followers, 176.2K engagements "Game Theory #3: Rich Dad Poor Dad In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains who succeeds and why. Notes and References: [--]. The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel [--]. Mindset by Carol Dweck [--]. Peak by K. Anders Ericsson" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28) 2026-01-13T11:03Z 1.2M followers, 753.4K engagements "Secret History #24: Empire of Church In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Catholic Church became the ultimate empire. Notes and References: [--]. Albigensian Crusade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade [--]. Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_conquest_of_Jerusalem [--]. The Quran" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0) 2025-12-04T09:10Z 1.2M followers, 195.4K engagements "Secret History #END: Pax Judaica In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Pax Judaica will come to rule the world. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezekiel Hebrew Bible [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel by Isaac Newton [--]. Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn [--]. The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler [--]. Kill King [--] by James Downard and Michael Hoffman [--]. Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank)" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg) 2025-12-18T07:24Z 1.2M followers, 748.7K engagements "Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean. Notes and References: [--]. History of Rome by Livy [--]. The Aeneid by Virgil [--]. The Iliad by Homer" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU) 2025-11-25T23:12Z 1.2M followers, 264.1K engagements "Secret History #27: Empire of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the alliance between the British Empire and the Sabbatean Frankists created modernity. Notes and References: [--]. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli [--]. Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Masson [--]. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud [--]. Aetiology of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Fragments of an Analysis of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Wall Street and the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence [--]. Letters of Karl Marx [--]. Letters of Mikhail Bakunin [--]. Rihland" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs) 2025-12-16T18:29Z 1.2M followers, 282.6K engagements "Civilization #END: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire In this final talk of the "Civilization" course Jiang Xueqin explains the rise and fall of the American empire. At the [----] Bretton Woods conference America proposed that the dollar should be the world's reserve currency. In return for this "exorbitant privilege" America pledged that its currency could be exchanged for gold. But with America spending exorbitantly to fund the Vietnam War the Space Race and the Great Society countries started to doubt this promise. After France withdrew all its gold from America President Nixon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_gH4PvIni5E) 2025-06-12T06:37Z 1.2M followers, 767K engagements "Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the nature of consciousness as depicted in Homer's Iliad" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA) 2026-01-28T07:06Z 1.2M followers, 143.8K engagements "Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang examines three major American events. He shows that the official explanations for the JFK assassination the [----] moon landing and 9/11 are problematic. Because Professor Jiang wants to pursue the truth without fear and hesitation he cannot monetize his YouTube channel. Please consider supporting his work. [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA) 2025-10-17T12:21Z 1.2M followers, 504.6K engagements "Game Theory #7: America's Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains why America is more of a nation-game than it is a nation-state" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k) 2026-01-27T10:28Z 1.2M followers, 368.9K engagements "Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explore the limitations of schools" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E) 2026-01-08T05:43Z 1.2M followers, 365.2K engagements "Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict In his April [--] [----] class Jiang explains the origins and thinking of Christian Zionism and how it is driving conflict in the Middle East. He argues that while most Christians consider Christian Zionism to heretical it has the most potential to capture people's imagination due to the instability uncertainty and extremity of the times we live in today" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY) 2024-05-08T05:58Z 1.2M followers, 367.4K engagements "Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse What was the Viking worldview What was their value system Why did they venture out into the world Unfortunately the Vikings maintained an oral tradition most of which was lost after they converted to Christianity. What we do know about the Vikings comes from archaeology and the Norse mythology that was written down in the Poetic and Prose Edda. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin attempts to re-constitute the Viking worldview and argues that their core values were courage loyalty and resourcefulness. He explains the power and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY) 2025-03-06T07:56Z 1.2M followers, 51.4K engagements "Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society The great French sociologist Emile Durkheim once wrote: Religion is above all a system of ideas by which men imagine the society of which they are members and the obscure yet intimate relations they have with it. In this talk Jiang Xueqin explores the origin and purpose of Paleolithic cave paintings. He argues that these paintings expressed pre-historic religious beliefs and practices and they demonstrate that humans have a religious imperative that is just as important as the economic and biological imperatives" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4) 2024-09-03T10:44Z 1.2M followers, 199.5K engagements "Game Theory #5: The World Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explain how states rise and fall" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ) 2026-01-20T14:15Z 1.2M followers, 332.3K engagements "Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia Why did Putin invade Ukraine In this lecture to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that the war in Ukraine is a clash of civilizations. In his novels "Crime and Punishment" and "Brothers Karamazov" Fyodor Dostoevsky captures and expresses the Russian soul. As a Christian Orthodox people the Russians believe the meaning of life is to accept the mystery miracle and authority of the human heart. This contrasts with Anglo-American civilization which proposes a utilitarian and materialistic conception of the universe." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0) 2025-05-20T05:54Z 826K followers, 133.5K engagements "Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire Voltaire once wrote: "The Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy nor Roman nor an empire. Historians often see this as a witticism. In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Voltaire was right and the Holy Roman Empire was a useful fiction created to legitimize the rule of Charlemagne and his successors" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY) 2025-02-27T06:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Slicing Sounds [--] #asmr #bushcraft #survival#kizlyarsupreme #birch #BowieKnife Removing birch bark from a dead birch. This bark is super useful for many things other than jut using a fire tinder. Check my videos to see how. Don't let anyone tell you correctly heat treat 420HC def has a place for big outdoor knives And yes this knife def holds a very good edge" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4PndK5jDs9Q) 2025-11-20T15:24Z 13.9K followers, 18.1K engagements "Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom Why did China stop being creative after the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that it's because the Ming and Qing dynasties achieved a level of national unity that was not possible in the past. While this national unity ensured the longevity of the emperor and his imperial bureaucracy it made the nation insular and stagnant. The imperial bureaucracy used three mechanisms to monopolize status literacy and culture. The "keju" (civil service examination) focused the energies and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM) 2025-03-13T07:15Z 955K followers, 66.4K engagements "Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions What is the Scientific Revolution and how did it happen Why did it happen in Europe and not anywhere else In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that the Scientific Revolution happened because of a change in focus from asking "What is Truth" to asking "How can we know Truth". To resolve the geocentric vs. heliocentric debate Europeans pioneered the Scientific Method a system of processes and protocols to test and refine hypotheses. This led to an explosion of technological innovation. Jiang Xueqin" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA) 2025-04-01T06:05Z 935K followers, 48.5K engagements "Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution The Ottomans Safavids Mughals and Chinese were the first four gunpowder empires. So how did Europe come to conquer the world In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that it's because Europe adopted a whole society approach to warfare. Because of open co-operative competition within Europe nations were forced to transition from feudalism to the nation-state from agriculture to industry and from religion to science. Though these transitions would turn Europe into the dominant military power in the world they would also" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54) 2025-04-10T05:06Z 1M followers, 57.1K engagements "Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Dante's Divine Comedy was the intellectual blueprint for the Renaissance the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. In a previous lecture we explored how Augustine's writings would pave the way for Europe's Dark Ages. In his treatise "City of God" Augustine argued that we were born in sin and we can commit only more sin. Though God is perfect we were "created out of nothing" and cannot redeem ourselves. Dante believed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok) 2025-01-07T04:41Z 1.1M followers, 125K engagements "Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains the power and beauty of the Book of Genesis. The chronology of the Pentateuch is confusing and contradictory. Archaeologists and historians have failed to discover any concrete evidence that Noah or Abraham or Moses ever existed. Jiang Xueqin argues that the Bible is not a chronology but a cosmology designed to accomplish three major objectives: [--]. To legitimize King David of Israel. The poet-God Yahweh favored him because he was the first poet-king. [--]. To create a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4) 2024-12-10T10:06Z 1.1M followers, 120.7K engagements "Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History Traditionally we have understood historical movement as either a line or a circle. We are either progressing towards the truth or trapped in an endless loop. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin proposes a new theory which he calls "the oceanic currents of history." When we examine the fall and decline of global empires a pattern emerges. As the empire expands it draws once isolated regions into its orbit. The empire allows these regions to become more prosperous and sophisticated through trade and conflict. Prosperity" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk) 2025-02-18T09:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains the influence of Zoroastrianism on the development of the Hebrew Bible. After Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon he enabled the Jews to return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple. Ezra oversaw major religious reforms including the creation and redaction of what we know today as the Hebrew Bible. Because of the influence of Zoroastrianism the Bible began to emphasize eschatology which in turn will pave the way for Christianity" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E) 2024-12-12T05:15Z 899K followers, 71.4K engagements "Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe Homo sapiens originated in Africa [------] years ago and for the vast majority of our history we were egalitarian peaceful and artistic. So where did concepts of patriarchy war and private property come from The Yamnaya people are nomadic pastoralists who originated in the Eurasian Steppes. They worshipped the Sky Father and excelled at waging war. Slowly their culture spread throughout the Steppes before conquering Europe Iran and India" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8) 2024-09-12T05:34Z 818K followers, 73.6K engagements "Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia: At the beginning of [----] Saudi Arabia and Iran were friendly with each other. Both were America-aligned oil-exporting monarchies. Irans Islamic Revolution was a political earthquake that promised to topple the entire Middle East political order. Ever since Saudi Arabia and Iran have been bitter religious economic and geo-political rivals. After Americas [----] invasion of Iraq Iran seemed dominant. In [----] Riyadh" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns) 2024-05-15T08:28Z 985K followers, 126.2K engagements "Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War In his book The Peloponnesian War Thucydides explains that the war started because Sparta saw Athens as a threat to its hegemony. In this talk Jiang Xueqin argues that the American scientist James Calhouns rat utopia experiments offer a better explanation. In the 1950s and 1960s James Calhoun conducted experiments in which colonies of rats were put into worlds of plenty and abundance. All these experiments ended in disaster. Rather than enjoying paradise the rats violently fought amongst themselves and their social order collapsed. Why did" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE) 2024-10-15T09:11Z 820K followers, 89.6K engagements "Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas For centuries linguists have believed that most European languages have so many similarities that they must have originated from a mother language which is referred to as "Proto-Indo-European." Decades of work in linguistics have confirmed the existence of this language. But how did this language spread The Lithuanian anthropologist Marija Gimbutas proposed her Kurgan Hypothesis and argued that Old Europe was an egalitarian peaceful and artistic civilization that was conquered by a patriarchal hierarchal and warlike culture" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM) 2024-09-10T09:49Z 1.1M followers, 125.7K engagements "(No Ads) Drift off to a Deep Sleep Music to Calm the Mind and Stop Thinking Healing Sleep Music (No Ads) Drift off to a Deep Sleep Music to Calm the Mind and Stop Thinking Healing Sleep Music Video made by: Mellow Ocean Waves _________________________ 🎹🌊 Drift into serenity with our soothing piano music combined with the gentle sound of ocean waves This perfect blend of mellow ocean waves and tranquil melodies creates an atmosphere perfect for relaxation restful sleep. Feel your worries wash away as the calming rhythms make space for relaxation and peace 👉 Don't forget to subscribe for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VWT1a8nJILE) 2025-11-21T08:34Z 33.3K followers, 206K engagements "Civilization #55: Kant Hegel and the Theory of Everything What is the legacy of Immanuel Kant considered our greatest philosopher In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Kant's insights had a tremendous impact on the development of neuroscience artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics. Kant's philosophical revolution was equivalent to that of the Copernican revolution in astronomy. With his precise logic Kant showed us that we were active participants in the making of reality rather than just passive observers. But Kant's epistemology had three major" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_3c3FjS57x4) 2025-05-27T05:42Z 995K followers, 154.8K engagements "Civilization #32: Rome's Rise Fall and Legacy How was Rome able to defeat all its powerful enemies in the Mediterranean world Why did Rome decline and fall What is Rome's influence on the world today What lessons can we learn from it In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was Rome's distinct cultural system (which focused on liberty public virtue and piety) which permitted it to triumph over its rivals. But after Rome became an empire this cultural system made it difficult for it to govern. Because America intentionally modeled itself after Rome we can" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Io7-_RS8uE) 2025-02-20T05:25Z 1.1M followers, 155.1K engagements "Geo-Strategy #3: How Empire is Destroying America In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students how empire is eroding the stability and vitality of the American Republic: From 1950-1980 America's manufacturing sector accounted for [--] percent of GDP employed [--] percent of its workforce and enjoyed [--] percent of total profits. Today it's only [--] percent of GDP and the financial services sector is ascendant. Financial services account for [--] percent of GDP enjoy [--] percent of profits and employs [--] percent of America's workforce. This trend has led to income" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_blj8zKdKgA) 2024-05-10T07:59Z 935K followers, 657.8K engagements "Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire The Byzantine empire saw itself as the continuation of the Roman empire. In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Constantinople and Rome had opposing cultural systems. Rome was a pagan Latin republic and Constantinople was a Christian multicultural empire" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc) 2025-02-25T10:22Z 887K followers, 77.7K engagements "Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) In his Friday May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explores who will win the US Presidential election in November: Joe Biden's [----] coalition of college-educated professionals minority voters twenty-somethings and suburbanites may not hold in [----]. Voters are upset about inflation illegal immigration and foreign policy direction. If Trump picks Nikki Haley to be his running mate he has a very good chance of winning the suburbs and thus the Presidency. Because of her ties to anti-Iranian organizations Nikki Haley may become the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k) 2024-05-17T05:50Z 1.1M followers, 115.6K engagements "New car day #ferrari355 #ferraribarnfind #ferrarirestoration #cliassicferrari" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vAjUPnx0X0c) 2025-11-21T14:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra In this Friday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Zarathustra create monotheism. Notes and References: [--]. Gathas of Zarathustra [--]. Poetry of Rumi [--]. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche [--]. Pablo Vasquez Lecture on Gathas: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CbBGuc7zbGY&t=4674s [--]. Zoroaster and the First Enlightenment: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=M5ZlnucQceI Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg) 2025-11-14T18:35Z 1.2M followers, 387.7K engagements "Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution The Renaissance was a re-imagining of Classical Greece in a Christian European context a spirit that would birth modernity. How did it start Scholars argued that the Renaissance came about due to a perfect storm of structural factors. The build-up of commercial trade the re-discovery of Greco-Roman thinkers and the development of intellectual centers (such as universities and monasteries) were among the most important. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was Dante's Divine Comedy that would spark the confident" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk) 2025-03-25T06:11Z 1.1M followers, 93.1K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch Why did Putin invade Ukraine What is his endgame How did he come from nowhere to become the most powerful man in Russia In this talk Professor Jiang offers a hypothesis and three predictions. He believes that there is a secret nexus of power within Russia that sees Putin as the Second Coming of Stalin who will unite the Orthodox world and restore the Byzantine empire. From this hypothesis we can make three predictions: 1.) Odessa will be a cataclysmic battle between NATO and Russia. 2.) China and Russia will have a falling out. 3.) Russia will" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA) 2025-07-18T14:55Z 1.2M followers, 324.8K engagements "Secret History #26: Faith of Evil In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the religious outlook of Jacob Frank. Notes and References: [--]. The Collection of the Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank) translated by Harris Lenowitz) [--]. "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" by William Butler Yeats [--]. Faust by Goethe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI) 2025-12-11T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 412.8K engagements "Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus Messiah of Rome Why are the teachings of Jesus and his apostle Paul so different Jesus preached compassion and mercy towards all while Paul preached that Jesus was the son of God who atoned for our sins with his sacrifice. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin presents a unique perspective on Pauls motivations. He argues that Paul was an agent of the Roman empire who wanted to use Jesus to combat messianic Judaism. The Roman empire and the Jews would fight three costly wars and the fanaticism of the Jews would awe and scare the Romans." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I) 2024-12-19T05:03Z 1.2M followers, 219.6K engagements "Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human In this Wednesday January [--] [----] talk to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that to be human is to "hear yourself speak."" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc) 2026-01-14T08:44Z 1.2M followers, 150.2K engagements "Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that the people of the steppes were history's greatest conquerors because they were the most open energetic cohesive. Notes and References: [--]. The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha [--]. The Horse the Wheel and Language by David Anthony Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU) 2025-10-31T12:02Z 1.2M followers, 251K engagements "Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project For thousands of years the Great Pyramid of Giza has captivated and captured the imagination of the world. Why was it built In this lecture to Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues against the mainstream theory that the Great Pyramid was built as a grand tomb for the Pharaoh. He argues that the Great Pyramid was Ancient Egypts Manhattan Project an attempt to unravel the secrets of the universe and channel the power of God to create eternal peace on Earth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo) 2024-11-26T09:21Z 1.2M followers, 186.6K engagements "Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy Plato and Aristotle are considered the two most influential philosophers of Western antiquity. But there are three central paradoxes surrounding the life and work of Aristotle. He is considered a brilliant thinker but we do not have any of his original writings. Over two hundred works are attributed to him and the range of his works is extra-ordinary and super-human hes written about metaphysics rhetoric theater politics ethics physics and biology. Finally while he studied under Plato for twenty years his empirical approach to epistemology" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA) 2024-11-05T09:50Z 1.2M followers, 96K engagements "Civilization #50: Rule Britannia How did England -- a poor and divided island -- become the world's greatest empire In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that England succeeded because it was a poor and divided island. Throughout most of its history the different peoples of Britain were engaged in open co-operative competition. Their division meant that foreign invaders could come and conquer them which led to creative destruction. The conflict and poverty within the island forced many to migrate which led to colonial expansion. These structural forces would" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk) 2025-05-08T07:31Z 1.2M followers, 93.1K engagements "Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy The Western world is in decline. Immigration is tearing apart the social contract and causing ethnic tensions. Young people cannot find work and can no longer afford a house. Debt is crippling governments and households. In his Tuesday August [--] [----] class to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that these trends are caused by the aging crisis in which rich pensioners are dictating policy to the detriment of everyone else. He predicts that the gerontocracy will lead to the rise of militaristic and authoritarian governments. Please" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM) 2025-08-29T05:08Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam The Abbasid Caliphate was considered the Golden Age of Islam. Before the Mongolian conquest the House of Wisdom in Baghdad was the global center of learning and literacy. Muslim scientists and mathematicians were respected and influential even in Europe. Why did the Islamic world enter its Golden Age while Europe was stuck in its Dark Ages Why did this Golden Age come to an end Why did Christianity eventually overtake the Islamic world In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Islam was an intellectual revolution" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8) 2025-03-11T10:10Z 1.2M followers, 464.1K engagements "Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer gave birth to Greek civilization humanity's creative peak. Notes and References: [--]. The Iliad by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles) [--]. Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes [--]. The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby [--]. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [--]. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw) 2025-11-06T08:34Z 1.2M followers, 289.2K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Christian Zionism dominates American Middle East policy. He introduces the universal law of game theory which helps reveal how the world works. He also discusses how Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah. Please support Professor Jiang's work by buying him a cup of coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory References: [--]. This is a MUST READ paper if you want to understand how and why Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah: The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in [---] CE Compared with" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68) 2025-07-11T16:12Z 1.2M followers, 302.3K engagements "Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing Viewer Discretion Advised) What is mind control and how does it work In his Wednesday September [--] [----] lecture to Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how mind control techniques originated in ancient Egypt. Priests developed these techniques to control the Pharaoh and they became embedded into Egyptian mythology. Today these ancient mind control techniques are still used. Please Support Professor Jiang: In order to openly and freely discuss controversial topics Professor Jiang does not monetize his YouTube" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA) 2025-09-11T00:09Z 1.2M followers, 858.9K engagements "Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Paul created Christianity. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of John New Testament [--]. Acts of the Apostles New Testament [--]. Letter to Romans New Testament [--]. Letter to Corinthians New Testament [--]. City of God by Augustine" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU) 2025-12-02T22:49Z 1.2M followers, 451.2K engagements "Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy We have understood Western civilization to be composed of four major traditions -- that of the Greeks Romans Jews and Christians. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that the Viking legacy is just as important for the development of Western civilization. During the Viking Age (793 - [----] CE) the Vikings would interact with and influence the regions from which would emerge the nation-states of Great Britain France Germany and Russia. These four became world empires. They were also for the past four hundred years the greatest" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls) 2025-03-04T08:03Z 1.2M followers, 214K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming In this video Professor Jiang offers his perspective on the imminent US-Iran War. He points out Iran has many advantages but there are three unknowns that would alter the trajectory of the war. Will the US and Israel be able to assassinate Iran's supreme leader What will Putin do How will China respond" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU) 2025-06-18T13:22Z 1.2M followers, 596.3K engagements "Civilization #9: Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy What made Athenian democracy so strong and vibrant Jiang Xueqin explains that theater taught Athenians how to be democratic citizens. The three major dramatists were Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus' Oresteia offered a mythology of democracy showing that democracy was a gift from Athena herself and that by practicing it well Athenians could make the whole world more just fair and righteous. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex trilogy revealed the dangers and tragedy of a monarchy. In his "hubris" Oedipus of Thebes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw) 2024-10-17T04:42Z 1.2M followers, 82.6K engagements "Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains why Putin is preparing to mobilize Russian society for total war: Putin's favorite philosopher Aleksandr Dugin believes that Russia and the West are fighting Samuel Huntington's War of Civilizations in Ukraine. What does he mean by this In the late eighties Francis Fukuyama published his "End of History" essay which argued that liberal democracy and consumerism are humanity's best conception of itself and therefore history has ceased to be a dialectical argument. Both Dugin and Putin believe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k) 2024-05-31T05:58Z 1.2M followers, 382.2K engagements "Secret History #25: Capital of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how transnational capital came to dominate the world" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c) 2025-12-09T14:05Z 1.2M followers, 332.1K engagements "Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs Why is there evil in the world In his Thursday August [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how secret societies operate and why they're the true centers of power in the world. Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper into this topic please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-world-4 In his most recent post Professor Jiang analyzes why America's rich and powerful would fly to Epstein Island. [--]. In order to discuss" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q) 2025-08-29T09:18Z 1.2M followers, 2.4M engagements "Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God Who was the historical Muhammad How did Islam triumph over both the Byzantine and Sasanian empires In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Islam was the first global revolution. While the Byzantine and Sasanian empires appeared to be superpowers they were weak and fragile due to decades of plague war and succession struggles. The Arabian peninsula seemed like a primitive and backward desert but it was actually a hotbed of innovation. As traders the Arabs were open-minded sophisticated and cosmopolitan. Constant" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4) 2025-01-02T04:54Z 1.2M followers, 285K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed The Western world is facing unprecedented levels of immigration inflation and economic malaise. Professor Jiang argues that these are symptoms. The real disease is the selfishness and hubris of the Baby Boomers who are the most powerful demographic in the West. They want to maintain their pension their free healthcare and their property values -- even if that means burning the world down. References: [--]. Rat Utopia experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink [--]. Elite Overproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM) 2025-08-08T14:20Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements "Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil Where do secret societies come from What do they teach On Friday September [--] [----] Professor Jiang lectured on the development of the religious tradition in the West. References: [--]. The Book of Enoch [--]. The Gospel of Thomas [--]. Paradise Lost by John Milton [--]. The Book of Genesis [--]. "The Secret History of the World" by Mark Booth Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com [--]. In order to discuss sensitive topics freely and openly Professor Jiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc) 2025-09-05T21:12Z 1.2M followers, 996.9K engagements "Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven In his Wednesday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a new theory on the birth of civilizations. Notes and References: [--]. Theogony by Hesiod [--]. Epic of Gilgamesh [--]. Enuma Elish [--]. Debate between Sheep and Grain Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-13-twilight-of-the [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w) 2025-10-29T08:29Z 1.2M followers, 335.3K engagements "Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War In his June [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explores how and why America would fight a second Civil War: Right now America is suffering three trends that make civil war more and more likely: a.) Increasing political polarization driven by the culture wars and inequality. b.) Breakdown of the narratives that bind America especially the American Dream and liberalism. c.) Growing distrust of America's national institutions including the government media science military universities and justice system. If Trump wins in November we can expect riots and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ) 2024-06-07T06:43Z 1.2M followers, 569.6K engagements "Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy We like to believe that a meritocracy is the best way to pick society's winners and losers. In this Friday September [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang argues that the meritocracy is destroying America. He argues that Harvard created the meritocracy for its own benefit. Harvard's endowment has skyrocketed at the expense of American democracy social mobility and political unity. Notes and References: [--]. Read this Nature article on how the Ivy League controls elite production:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA) 2025-09-12T22:20Z 1.2M followers, 673K engagements "Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse In this lecture Professor Jiang explains the three theories as to why and how societies rise and fall: the financialization of society elite over-production and the civilization life cycle. Recommended Readings: [--]. Please do yourself a favor and read Thomas Pikettys Capital in the 21st Century. Its surprisingly clear and simple and his evidence is striking and overwhelming. [--]. Its essential to read Peter Turchin. Start off with one of his earlier works: War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires. [--]. C. Wright Mills The Power Elite is a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74) 2025-08-22T20:39Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin examines if Iran President Ebrahim Raisi's death was an accident or an assassination: On May [--] Iran President Raisi's helicopter crashed into the mountains killing all nine on board. Most experts believe it was a weather-related accident. There are skeptics who believed that powerful forces within Iran stood to gain from Raisi's death. Raisi was expected to become the next Iranian supreme leader and now Mojtaba Khamenei (the current Ayatollah's second son) is the favorite. Under the current" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts) 2024-05-24T12:12Z 1.2M followers, 125K engagements "Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination In his Tuesday October [--] [----] class Professor Jiang argues against Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. He believes that humans from the beginning were spiritual compassionate and artistic. Reference: [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8) 2025-10-21T10:31Z 1.2M followers, 368.3K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins Let's Game Theory Last night the Americans bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. The US-Iran War has begun. How will this war play out In this video Professor Jiang uses game theory to examine the motivations interests and strategies of the three main players: Iran Israel and the United States. He argues that according to game theory the United States will commit to a ground invasion of Iran" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s) 2025-06-22T16:55Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements "Secret History #17: Literary Genesis In this Wednesday November 12th lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Yahwehist gave birth to the Bible as well as the nation of Israel. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Genesis Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of Kings Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of J by Harold Bloom Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-17-the-book-of-j [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0) 2025-11-12T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 277.2K engagements "Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire How did Shakespeare father the British empire In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that it was Shakespeare's innovations in syntax and diction that transformed English into the linguistic Internet. Cultures ideologies and peoples could now meet on this Internet and have their ideas and values pollinate and cross-breed within the framework of British civilization. References: 1.) Hamlet by William Shakespeare 2.) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 3.) "To Autumn" by John Keats" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ) 2025-05-14T09:35Z 1.2M followers, 71.5K engagements "Civilization #59: The Man of Steel How did a poor Georgian high school drop-out help lead a fringe and fanatical political party (the Bolsheviks) into absolute power in Russia How was Stalin able to eliminate his competitors How did he defeat Hitler in World War II In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Stalin was the "ubermensch" the man of steel who willed a new reality into being. Lenin could not have maintained the Bolsheviks without financing from Stalin's criminal activities. After the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War Lenin was intent on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc) 2025-06-10T11:17Z 1.2M followers, 195.3K engagements "Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse In this lecture Jiang Xueqin explores with his Chinese students why the Bronze Age collapsed. In the year [----] BCE the world was globalized and prosperous. Nations shared people ideas and goods. A few decades later the Bronze Age collapsed. Mycenaean Greece and Hittite Anatolia were destroyed and the Sea Peoples ravaged Egypt. Scholars disagree on what caused this collapse. Some argued it was a northern invasion while others believed there was a cataclysmic natural disaster. The scholarly consensus now is this systems collapse" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU) 2024-10-08T09:26Z 1.2M followers, 160.5K engagements "Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains how the Protestant Reformation birthed capitalism. Martin Luther and John Calvin saw the Catholic Church as inherently and irredeemably corrupt. Martin Luther proposed "justification by faith" which argued that Christians can only be redeemed by their unwavering faith in God (regardless of how much money they donated to the Church). John Calvin proposed the concept of "double pre-destination" which argued that God at the beginning of time had decided" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0) 2025-03-27T07:53Z 1.2M followers, 168.5K engagements "Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination Jiang Xueqin examines two case studies that highlight the power of religion. In his book "The Wayfinders" the Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis looks at the animistic cosmology and the shamanistic rituals of the Barasana people of the Amazon. In his book "The Forest People" the British anthropologist Colin Turnbull observes the religion permeates every aspect of the life of the Pygmies. For religious people their collective faith is more real than reality itself and is the source of all that is good in the world. Jiang Xueqin argues that throughout" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA) 2024-09-05T10:15Z 1.2M followers, 145.9K engagements "Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth In this lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the religious imagination inspired humans to Heavenly achievements. Notes and References: [--]. The Wayfinders by Wade Davis [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. The Forest People by Colin Turnbull Please support the work of Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8) 2025-10-24T12:08Z 1.2M followers, 436.9K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge In this talk Professor Jiang offers his geo-political predictions for the next twenty years. He first analyzes the major eschatological traditions (Zoroastrian Judaic Christian Zionist Islamic Orthodox and Catholic) to estimate their convergence points. This allows him to imagine a framework for predicting geo-politics. His major predictions: [--]. The United States will lose a ground war against Iran. [--]. NATOs defense of Odessa will trigger political revolutions and upheaval throughout Europe. [--]. Israel will destroy the Dome of the Rock" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs) 2025-08-01T17:12Z 1.2M followers, 227.1K engagements "Civilization #24: Resurrecting the Gnostic Jesus Who was the historical Jesus and what did he believe In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Jesus was a unique religious genius who synthesized the major global religions of his day to create a new religion which we today refer to as Gnosticism. Like other great religious leaders Jesus had a three-tier gospel. To the public he taught that true faith demanded compassion. To his disciples he taught that true faith demanded self-sacrifice. Then there were the secret teachings that he shared with his proteges." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_bXHBT5NTfc) 2024-12-17T04:51Z 1.2M followers, 316.6K engagements "Secret History #1: How Power Works In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further Reading: If you enjoy this lecture" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo) 2025-08-21T04:19Z 1.2M followers, 796.4K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling What motivates Trump Netanyahu and Khamenei In this talk Professor Jiang explains that all three have a messianic calling" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k) 2025-06-25T12:00Z 1.2M followers, 433.6K engagements "Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains why Mesopotamia became the cradle of civilization. He explains that geography determined the destinies and mythologies of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Protected by natural boundaries and nurtured by the bountiful Nile Egypt believed in benevolent Gods. Mesopotamia had no natural boundaries and its two rivers -- the Euphrates and Tigris -- were mercurial and chaotic which led people to believe that the Gods demanded their servitude and struggle. This belief is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM) 2024-11-28T04:55Z 1.2M followers, 78.6K engagements "Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth How did a young Corsican become Emperor of France in [----] In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was Napoleon's myth-making genius that seduced the French people and killed the fledging French Republic. In this way Napoleon was like Caesar and Hitler. Will Trump take America down the same path" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8) 2025-04-29T05:28Z 1.2M followers, 56K engagements "Game Theory #1: The Dating Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang introduces the concept of game theory and how it applies to the dating game" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U) 2026-01-06T14:07Z 1.2M followers, 714.4K engagements "Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy Notes and References: [--]. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt [--]. The Trial by Franz Kafka [--]. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott [--]. For this talk I relied heavily on the work of Michael Zanini. His Substack is here: https://revitalize.substack.com/p/why-the-federal-bureaucracy-keeps [--]. The article on the ballooning bureaucracy of Swedish higher education can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-023-09408-x [--]. The CNN article on how USC punished the professor is here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw) 2025-10-11T01:11Z 1.2M followers, 454.9K engagements "Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY) 2025-08-22T16:37Z 1.2M followers, 789.2K engagements "Civilization #39: Genghis Khan World Shatterer Genghis Khan is considered the world's greatest conquerer. Why was he so successful In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Genghis Khan had the same characteristics as other great conquerors such as Sargon of Akkad Philip of Macedon and Julius Caesar. Genghis Khan believed that he had a divine mission to re-make the world. In overcoming hardship and defeat Genghis Khan came to recognize his mission and committed himself to completing it. He united the warring Mongol tribes into a professional meritocratic and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM) 2025-03-18T05:52Z 1.2M followers, 127K engagements "Civilization #17: Homer Vergil and the War for the Soul of Rome In this talk to Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains why Vergil's "The Aeneid" is such brilliant propaganda. In [--] BCE the Roman Senate declared Octavian "Augustus" making him effectively the first emperor. But Augustus Caesar still had three problems. First he needed to establish his legitimacy and authority. To do so he promoted the myth that his Julii family were descendants of Aeneas and thus Rome's very first family. Second he needed to establish a new Roman cultural identity that emphasized "piety" over" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU) 2024-11-21T05:17Z 1.2M followers, 55K engagements "Civilization #54: The German Will to Power What explains the rise of Adolf Hitler In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Hitler was a manifestation of the German obsession with the unity of will. After the humiliating defeat of World War I and amidst the economic turmoil of the Weimar Republic Germans sought salvation and redemption in their civilization especially the music of Richard Wagner and the philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche. They longed for an "ubermensch" to emerge and Hitler rose to the occasion. References: [--]. The World as Will and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc) 2025-05-22T06:48Z 1.2M followers, 457.7K engagements "Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the true teachings of Jesus. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of Thomas [--]. Gospel of Matthew [--]. Divine Comedy by Dante [--]. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ) 2025-11-27T08:28Z 1.2M followers, 426.9K engagements "Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything Freud proposed the theory of the Oedipal Complex. Where did he get the idea Why did it become so popular In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Freud developed his psychological theories in order to protect the interests of the powerful. His protege Carl Jung would take Freud's theory of the unconscious and turn it into a systemic model of human psychology. Because of modernist literature and art this "cult of the self" has permeated throughout the entire culture becoming the air we breathe. This has led to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8) 2025-06-04T02:58Z 1.2M followers, 184.7K engagements "Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Bronze Age global trade network was a proto-capitalistic system and therefore bound to collapse hard and fast. Notes and References: [--]. Debt by David Graeber [--]. [----] BC by Eric H. Cline [--]. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely [--]. "Power Causes Brain Damage" in the Atlantic Monthly: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/ Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE) 2025-11-04T10:49Z 1.2M followers, 257.4K engagements "Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang In this video Professor Jiang introduces himself and answers the following three questions: [--]. How did this "Civilization" course get started and where is it going [--]. What is the Predictive History project [--]. What are Professor Jiang's long-term professional ambitions Viewers are invited to ask questions in the comments section. Professor Jiang will answer to the best of his ability" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko) 2025-06-13T05:00Z 1.2M followers, 171.8K engagements "Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Alexander the Great birthed the Hellenistic world. Notes and References: [--]. Histories by Herodotus [--]. The Peloponnesian World by Thucydides" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo) 2025-11-20T07:46Z 1.2M followers, 238.2K engagements "Game Theory #8: Communist Specter In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the origins of Communism. Notes and References: [--]. "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels [--]. "Wall Street and the Russian Revolution" by Richard B. Spence" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q) 2026-01-29T04:55Z 1.2M followers, 222.9K engagements "Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the nature of consciousness as depicted in Homer's Iliad" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA) 2026-01-28T07:06Z 1.2M followers, 143.8K engagements "Game Theory #7: America's Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains why America is more of a nation-game than it is a nation-state" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k) 2026-01-27T10:28Z 1.2M followers, 368.9K engagements "Game Theory #6: The World's Bank In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the British empire evolved into an offshore financial system" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo) 2026-01-22T05:55Z 1.2M followers, 529.2K engagements "Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer created Greek civilization. Reference: [--]. "Defense of Poetry" by Percy Shelley" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w) 2026-01-21T06:47Z 1.2M followers, 128.3K engagements "Game Theory #5: The World Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explain how states rise and fall" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ) 2026-01-20T14:15Z 1.2M followers, 332.3K engagements "Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses the example of immigration to illustrate how games are rigged. Notes and References: "What Makes You Click: Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating" (MIT Sloan Working Paper February 2006) Download the paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=895442" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g) 2026-01-15T05:49Z 1.2M followers, 350.3K engagements "Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human In this Wednesday January [--] [----] talk to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that to be human is to "hear yourself speak."" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc) 2026-01-14T08:44Z 1.2M followers, 150.2K engagements "Game Theory #3: Rich Dad Poor Dad In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains who succeeds and why. Notes and References: [--]. The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel [--]. Mindset by Carol Dweck [--]. Peak by K. Anders Ericsson" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28) 2026-01-13T11:03Z 1.2M followers, 753.4K engagements "Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explore the limitations of schools" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E) 2026-01-08T05:43Z 1.2M followers, 365.2K engagements "Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe What are the Great Books In this introductory lecture Professor Jiang explains that the Great Books are meant to help us achieve our true human potential by revealing the secrets of the universe. This semester Professor Jiang will discuss five Great Books: [--]. The Iliad by Homer [--]. The Odyssey by Homer [--]. The Republic by Plato [--]. The Aeneid by Vergil [--]. The Divine Comedy by Dante" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A) 2026-01-07T08:51Z 1.2M followers, 480.7K engagements "Game Theory #1: The Dating Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang introduces the concept of game theory and how it applies to the dating game" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U) 2026-01-06T14:07Z 1.2M followers, 714.4K engagements "Secret History #END: Pax Judaica In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Pax Judaica will come to rule the world. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezekiel Hebrew Bible [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel by Isaac Newton [--]. Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn [--]. The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler [--]. Kill King [--] by James Downard and Michael Hoffman [--]. Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank)" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg) 2025-12-18T07:24Z 1.2M followers, 748.7K engagements "Secret History #27: Empire of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the alliance between the British Empire and the Sabbatean Frankists created modernity. Notes and References: [--]. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli [--]. Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Masson [--]. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud [--]. Aetiology of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Fragments of an Analysis of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Wall Street and the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence [--]. Letters of Karl Marx [--]. Letters of Mikhail Bakunin [--]. Rihland" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs) 2025-12-16T18:29Z 1.2M followers, 282.6K engagements "Secret History #26: Faith of Evil In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the religious outlook of Jacob Frank. Notes and References: [--]. The Collection of the Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank) translated by Harris Lenowitz) [--]. "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" by William Butler Yeats [--]. Faust by Goethe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI) 2025-12-11T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 412.8K engagements "Secret History #25: Capital of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how transnational capital came to dominate the world" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c) 2025-12-09T14:05Z 1.2M followers, 332.1K engagements "Secret History #24: Empire of Church In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Catholic Church became the ultimate empire. Notes and References: [--]. Albigensian Crusade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade [--]. Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_conquest_of_Jerusalem [--]. The Quran" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0) 2025-12-04T09:10Z 1.2M followers, 195.4K engagements "Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Paul created Christianity. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of John New Testament [--]. Acts of the Apostles New Testament [--]. Letter to Romans New Testament [--]. Letter to Corinthians New Testament [--]. City of God by Augustine" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU) 2025-12-02T22:49Z 1.2M followers, 451.2K engagements "Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the true teachings of Jesus. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of Thomas [--]. Gospel of Matthew [--]. Divine Comedy by Dante [--]. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ) 2025-11-27T08:28Z 1.2M followers, 426.9K engagements "Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean. Notes and References: [--]. History of Rome by Livy [--]. The Aeneid by Virgil [--]. The Iliad by Homer" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU) 2025-11-25T23:12Z 1.2M followers, 264.1K engagements "Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Alexander the Great birthed the Hellenistic world. Notes and References: [--]. Histories by Herodotus [--]. The Peloponnesian World by Thucydides" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo) 2025-11-20T07:46Z 1.2M followers, 238.2K engagements "Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that the Persians constructed the Jewish identity in order to divide and rule the Levant. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezra Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) [--]. Book of Nehemiah Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I) 2025-11-18T16:29Z 1.2M followers, 634.5K engagements "Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra In this Friday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Zarathustra create monotheism. Notes and References: [--]. Gathas of Zarathustra [--]. Poetry of Rumi [--]. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche [--]. Pablo Vasquez Lecture on Gathas: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CbBGuc7zbGY&t=4674s [--]. Zoroaster and the First Enlightenment: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=M5ZlnucQceI Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg) 2025-11-14T18:35Z 1.2M followers, 387.7K engagements "Secret History #17: Literary Genesis In this Wednesday November 12th lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Yahwehist gave birth to the Bible as well as the nation of Israel. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Genesis Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of Kings Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of J by Harold Bloom Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-17-the-book-of-j [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0) 2025-11-12T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 277.2K engagements "Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer gave birth to Greek civilization humanity's creative peak. Notes and References: [--]. The Iliad by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles) [--]. Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes [--]. The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby [--]. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [--]. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw) 2025-11-06T08:34Z 1.2M followers, 289.2K engagements "Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Bronze Age global trade network was a proto-capitalistic system and therefore bound to collapse hard and fast. Notes and References: [--]. Debt by David Graeber [--]. [----] BC by Eric H. Cline [--]. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely [--]. "Power Causes Brain Damage" in the Atlantic Monthly: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/ Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE) 2025-11-04T10:49Z 1.2M followers, 257.4K engagements "Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that the people of the steppes were history's greatest conquerors because they were the most open energetic cohesive. Notes and References: [--]. The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha [--]. The Horse the Wheel and Language by David Anthony Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU) 2025-10-31T12:02Z 1.2M followers, 251K engagements "Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven In his Wednesday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a new theory on the birth of civilizations. Notes and References: [--]. Theogony by Hesiod [--]. Epic of Gilgamesh [--]. Enuma Elish [--]. Debate between Sheep and Grain Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-13-twilight-of-the [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w) 2025-10-29T08:29Z 1.2M followers, 335.3K engagements "Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth In this lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the religious imagination inspired humans to Heavenly achievements. Notes and References: [--]. The Wayfinders by Wade Davis [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. The Forest People by Colin Turnbull Please support the work of Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8) 2025-10-24T12:08Z 1.2M followers, 436.9K engagements "Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination In his Tuesday October [--] [----] class Professor Jiang argues against Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. He believes that humans from the beginning were spiritual compassionate and artistic. Reference: [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter: https://x.com/xueqinjiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8) 2025-10-21T10:31Z 1.2M followers, 368.3K engagements "Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang examines three major American events. He shows that the official explanations for the JFK assassination the [----] moon landing and 9/11 are problematic. Because Professor Jiang wants to pursue the truth without fear and hesitation he cannot monetize his YouTube channel. Please consider supporting his work. [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA) 2025-10-17T12:21Z 1.2M followers, 504.6K engagements "Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything Where did we come from Why are we here Where are we going Scientists tell us they have all the solutions. The Big Bang Theory Evolution and Neuroscience reveal a random material and emergent universe. But there are fundamental problems with all three theories. What is dark energy How did we make the evolutionary leap from ape to human Where does consciousness come from In this Wednesday October [--] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a theory of everything that places mind before matter. Notes and References: [--]. The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA) 2025-10-15T10:02Z 1.2M followers, 686K engagements "Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy Notes and References: [--]. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt [--]. The Trial by Franz Kafka [--]. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott [--]. For this talk I relied heavily on the work of Michael Zanini. His Substack is here: https://revitalize.substack.com/p/why-the-federal-bureaucracy-keeps [--]. The article on the ballooning bureaucracy of Swedish higher education can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-023-09408-x [--]. The CNN article on how USC punished the professor is here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw) 2025-10-11T01:11Z 1.2M followers, 454.9K engagements "Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy We like to believe that a meritocracy is the best way to pick society's winners and losers. In this Friday September [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang argues that the meritocracy is destroying America. He argues that Harvard created the meritocracy for its own benefit. Harvard's endowment has skyrocketed at the expense of American democracy social mobility and political unity. Notes and References: [--]. Read this Nature article on how the Ivy League controls elite production:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA) 2025-09-12T22:20Z 1.2M followers, 673K engagements "Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing Viewer Discretion Advised) What is mind control and how does it work In his Wednesday September [--] [----] lecture to Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how mind control techniques originated in ancient Egypt. Priests developed these techniques to control the Pharaoh and they became embedded into Egyptian mythology. Today these ancient mind control techniques are still used. Please Support Professor Jiang: In order to openly and freely discuss controversial topics Professor Jiang does not monetize his YouTube" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA) 2025-09-11T00:09Z 1.2M followers, 858.9K engagements "Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil Where do secret societies come from What do they teach On Friday September [--] [----] Professor Jiang lectured on the development of the religious tradition in the West. References: [--]. The Book of Enoch [--]. The Gospel of Thomas [--]. Paradise Lost by John Milton [--]. The Book of Genesis [--]. "The Secret History of the World" by Mark Booth Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com [--]. In order to discuss sensitive topics freely and openly Professor Jiang" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc) 2025-09-05T21:12Z 1.2M followers, 996.9K engagements "Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs Why is there evil in the world In his Thursday August [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how secret societies operate and why they're the true centers of power in the world. Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper into this topic please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-world-4 In his most recent post Professor Jiang analyzes why America's rich and powerful would fly to Epstein Island. [--]. In order to discuss" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q) 2025-08-29T09:18Z 1.2M followers, 2.4M engagements "Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy The Western world is in decline. Immigration is tearing apart the social contract and causing ethnic tensions. Young people cannot find work and can no longer afford a house. Debt is crippling governments and households. In his Tuesday August [--] [----] class to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that these trends are caused by the aging crisis in which rich pensioners are dictating policy to the detriment of everyone else. He predicts that the gerontocracy will lead to the rise of militaristic and authoritarian governments. Please" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM) 2025-08-29T05:08Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse In this lecture Professor Jiang explains the three theories as to why and how societies rise and fall: the financialization of society elite over-production and the civilization life cycle. Recommended Readings: [--]. Please do yourself a favor and read Thomas Pikettys Capital in the 21st Century. Its surprisingly clear and simple and his evidence is striking and overwhelming. [--]. Its essential to read Peter Turchin. Start off with one of his earlier works: War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires. [--]. C. Wright Mills The Power Elite is a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74) 2025-08-22T20:39Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY) 2025-08-22T16:37Z 1.2M followers, 789.2K engagements "Secret History #1: How Power Works In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further Reading: If you enjoy this lecture" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo) 2025-08-21T04:19Z 1.2M followers, 796.4K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed The Western world is facing unprecedented levels of immigration inflation and economic malaise. Professor Jiang argues that these are symptoms. The real disease is the selfishness and hubris of the Baby Boomers who are the most powerful demographic in the West. They want to maintain their pension their free healthcare and their property values -- even if that means burning the world down. References: [--]. Rat Utopia experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink [--]. Elite Overproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM) 2025-08-08T14:20Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge In this talk Professor Jiang offers his geo-political predictions for the next twenty years. He first analyzes the major eschatological traditions (Zoroastrian Judaic Christian Zionist Islamic Orthodox and Catholic) to estimate their convergence points. This allows him to imagine a framework for predicting geo-politics. His major predictions: [--]. The United States will lose a ground war against Iran. [--]. NATOs defense of Odessa will trigger political revolutions and upheaval throughout Europe. [--]. Israel will destroy the Dome of the Rock" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs) 2025-08-01T17:12Z 1.2M followers, 227.1K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch Why did Putin invade Ukraine What is his endgame How did he come from nowhere to become the most powerful man in Russia In this talk Professor Jiang offers a hypothesis and three predictions. He believes that there is a secret nexus of power within Russia that sees Putin as the Second Coming of Stalin who will unite the Orthodox world and restore the Byzantine empire. From this hypothesis we can make three predictions: 1.) Odessa will be a cataclysmic battle between NATO and Russia. 2.) China and Russia will have a falling out. 3.) Russia will" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA) 2025-07-18T14:55Z 1.2M followers, 324.8K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Christian Zionism dominates American Middle East policy. He introduces the universal law of game theory which helps reveal how the world works. He also discusses how Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah. Please support Professor Jiang's work by buying him a cup of coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory References: [--]. This is a MUST READ paper if you want to understand how and why Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah: The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in [---] CE Compared with" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68) 2025-07-11T16:12Z 1.2M followers, 302.3K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Isaac Newton founded Christian Zionism which is driving the conflict in the Middle East today. If you want to better understand this topic here are some suggestions for further reading: [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16878 [--]. The Scofield Bible: https://www.bethelbaptistlondon.com/Scofield%20Continuous.pdf [--]. Christian Zionism wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism [--]. Dispensationalism" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM) 2025-06-28T22:01Z 1.2M followers, 366.7K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling What motivates Trump Netanyahu and Khamenei In this talk Professor Jiang explains that all three have a messianic calling" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k) 2025-06-25T12:00Z 1.2M followers, 433.6K engagements "Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins Let's Game Theory Last night the Americans bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. The US-Iran War has begun. How will this war play out In this video Professor Jiang uses game theory to examine the motivations interests and strategies of the three main players: Iran Israel and the United States. He argues that according to game theory the United States will commit to a ground invasion of Iran" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s) 2025-06-22T16:55Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements "Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming In this video Professor Jiang offers his perspective on the imminent US-Iran War. He points out Iran has many advantages but there are three unknowns that would alter the trajectory of the war. Will the US and Israel be able to assassinate Iran's supreme leader What will Putin do How will China respond" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU) 2025-06-18T13:22Z 1.2M followers, 596.3K engagements "Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang In this video Professor Jiang introduces himself and answers the following three questions: [--]. How did this "Civilization" course get started and where is it going [--]. What is the Predictive History project [--]. What are Professor Jiang's long-term professional ambitions Viewers are invited to ask questions in the comments section. Professor Jiang will answer to the best of his ability" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko) 2025-06-13T05:00Z 1.2M followers, 171.8K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that the Persians constructed the Jewish identity in order to divide and rule the Levant. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezra Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) [--]. Book of Nehemiah Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T16:29Z 1.2M followers, 634.5K engagements
"Game Theory #6: The World's Bank In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the British empire evolved into an offshore financial system"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T05:55Z 1.2M followers, 529.2K engagements
"Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World How did a few thousand Spanish Conquistadors subdue and conquer millions of Aztecs Incas and Mayans. Most scholars believe it's a combination of superior Spanish military technology spreading of deadly infectious diseases and internal tribal conflict that led to the demise of once powerful empires. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was the religious practices and beliefs of the native peoples of Central and South America that made them vulnerable to invasion and conquest. The natives had a"
YouTube Link 2025-04-08T05:31Z 1.2M followers, 69.9K engagements
"Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization The Greeks were humanity's most creative civilization. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are timeless classics Plato's The Republic continues to inspire and Thucydides are still read by military officers in search of strategic insights. Why were the Greeks so creative Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students there are three main factors: 1.) the polis 2.) the alphabet 3.) Homer After the destruction of Mycenaean Greece at the end of the Bronze Age Greece became divided into thousands of diverse city-states that"
YouTube Link 2024-10-10T05:34Z 1.2M followers, 125.9K engagements
"Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe What are the Great Books In this introductory lecture Professor Jiang explains that the Great Books are meant to help us achieve our true human potential by revealing the secrets of the universe. This semester Professor Jiang will discuss five Great Books: [--]. The Iliad by Homer [--]. The Odyssey by Homer [--]. The Republic by Plato [--]. The Aeneid by Vergil [--]. The Divine Comedy by Dante"
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T08:51Z 1.2M followers, 480.7K engagements
"Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer created Greek civilization. Reference: [--]. "Defense of Poetry" by Percy Shelley"
YouTube Link 2026-01-21T06:47Z 1.2M followers, 128.3K engagements
"Game Theory #8: Communist Specter In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the origins of Communism. Notes and References: [--]. "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels [--]. "Wall Street and the Russian Revolution" by Richard B. Spence"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T04:55Z 1.2M followers, 222.9K engagements
"Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great We celebrate Alexander the Great as one of the greatest conquerors of history. What motivated him Was he truly a strategic genius What is his ultimate legacy In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin presents a revisionist understanding of Alexander the Great. He argues that Alexander was first and foremost motivated to prove he was better than his father. With his boundless ambition he could not find peace until he had conquered the whole world"
YouTube Link 2024-10-29T09:30Z 1.2M followers, 125.2K engagements
"Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong Why was Karl Marx -- who believed that industrial capitalism would evolve into a worker's paradise -- wrong In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that while Marx understood the ills of capitalism he failed to appreciate the psychology of people. People strive for religious community not economic equality. We want to connect with God and we seek status. That's why those countries that did succeed in their communist revolutions devolved into theocracies dominated by cults of personalities. References: [--]. The Communist"
YouTube Link 2025-05-29T08:05Z 1.2M followers, 291.4K engagements
"Civilization #40: Church and Empire What were the Crusades Why did they start Why did they end In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explores the history of Europe's late middle ages. He shows that while the Roman Catholic Church was dominant there were still challenges to its authority. Muslims controlled the Holy Land Muslim Iberia was more wealthy and innovative and the Orthodox Church claimed sovereignty. As well Catholic clerics were considered corrupt which led to widespread dissent. In [----] Pople Urban II hoped to channel his flock's religious energy and direct"
YouTube Link 2025-03-20T06:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #9: It's Time to Fight In this video Professor Jiang shares a personal traumatic incident. On Sunday August [--] [----] he was detained at a Toronto public pool because the staff suspected him of child abuse. Ultimately the police cleared him of any wrongdoing. He plans to file a lawsuit for three reasons: [--]. He believes that as a matter of principle he has to show his children that he will fight to protect them. [--]. He believes that the staff behaved the way they did because of certain stereotypes they held about Asian people. [--]. He believes that this is yet another example of"
YouTube Link 2025-08-15T13:33Z 428K followers, 57.5K engagements
"Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason This video begins a three-part series on the French Revolution. The over-arching thesis is that the French Revolution was a religious crusade and it was made successful by the contributions of three geniuses. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the Poet of the Revolution who dreamed of a better world based on Reason. Maximilien De Robespierre was the Prophet who had the courage and conviction to lead his people into this new world. Napoleon Bonaparte was the Prince who had the skill and resolve to conquer this new world and make the world bend to his vision."
YouTube Link 2025-04-22T06:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains that an American invasion of Iran would be a catastrophic mistake: If Trump were to win a second term he would likely contemplate invading Iran. While an initial invasion would seem successful American forces would quickly become bogged down in Iran's mountainous terrain. The American invasion would be similar to Athens' invasion of Sicily in [---] BCE as described in Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War. Despite its initial successes the Athenians couldn't re-supply themselves and their entire expedition was wiped out."
YouTube Link 2024-05-29T06:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Civilization BONUS: Meet the Students After sixty classes covering the entire span of human history what have Professor Jiang's students learned Meet three of Professor Jiang's students (Echo Amber and Siqi) who will answer the following questions: [--]. What were their most memorable experiences taking this class [--]. How has this class changed their outlook on themselves their society and the world [--]. What are their future plans and how will they contribute to the betterment of the world"
YouTube Link 2025-06-12T07:55Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains how the Dutch Golden Age gave birth to the Middle Class. With the transition from feudalism to market economics and from Catholicism to Calvinism people changed their focus from accumulating status to accumulating wealth. This created the concept of "class." This concept brought with it certain pathologies (fears of disorder failure and germs) that expressed themselves in the Middle Class obsessions with money art and materialism. With his paintings"
YouTube Link 2025-05-06T06:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer In this final talk of the semester to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains the enduring influence of Dante. Dante recognized that if he is to succeed in birthing a new European mind he must displace Vergil's Aeneid. To do this Dante makes Vergil into his guide and Vergil reveals that he is an unreliable narrator. At the beginning of their epic journey Vergil insists to Dante that only the baptized can enter Heaven. Those who were virtuous and but were not baptized -- such as Vergil -- must remain in limbo. Once in"
YouTube Link 2025-01-14T04:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Civilization #57 How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) (This is a re-upload which fixed the audio. Much thanks to Gabriel Bessa for volunteering to fix the issue -- I can't thank him enough.) Freud proposed the theory of the Oedipal Complex. Where did he get the idea Why did it become so popular In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Freud developed his psychological theories in order to protect the interests of the powerful. His protege Carl Jung would take Freud's theory of the unconscious and turn it into a"
YouTube Link 2025-06-04T14:18Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy Oscar Wilde once quipped: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between." What did he mean by this In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that America in its attempt to become an "enlightened" civilization ultimately became an anti-civilization. Civilizations have history culture and values and therefore they have prejudices. These prejudices often lead to conformity stagnation and close-mindedness. America was a diverse open society that was determined to embrace its"
YouTube Link 2025-05-15T12:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre The French Revolution allowed for the meteoric rise of an idealistic provincial lawyer. During the Reign of Terror Robespierre could have been king but ultimately fell to the guillotine like thousands of his victims. What explains his spectacular rise and fall In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Robespierre saw himself as the Prophet of the French Revolution and was determined to achieve the Revolution no matter what. For the weak and oppressed Robespierre became Jesus and as such he would come to share the"
YouTube Link 2025-04-24T05:33Z 311K followers, [----] engagements
"Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon In this talk Jiang Xueqin examines how Philip II of Macedon turned his kingdom from a poor and weak nation into the military hegemony that would conquer Persia. In his youth Philip was a hostage at Thebes where he studied the military innovations that made Thebes into the dominant military power in Greece at that time. He learned that with enough training and discipline an army could achieve the mobility co-ordination and flexibility necessary to dominate others. He inspired loyalty among his men with his bravery fair-mindedness and"
YouTube Link 2024-10-24T04:46Z 733K followers, 40.6K engagements
"Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State Nationalism is the main cause of World War One. How and why did it originate In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that nationalism was a response to religious economic and cultural challenges in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Protestant Reformation produced a crisis of faith in people and many made the nation-state into their new religion. The Industrial Revolution made the bourgeoisie the new dominant elite and they demanded property rights that only the nation-state could guarantee. Rapid"
YouTube Link 2025-06-05T08:48Z 351K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses the example of immigration to illustrate how games are rigged. Notes and References: "What Makes You Click: Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating" (MIT Sloan Working Paper February 2006) Download the paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=895442"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T05:49Z 1.2M followers, 350.3K engagements
"Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything Where did we come from Why are we here Where are we going Scientists tell us they have all the solutions. The Big Bang Theory Evolution and Neuroscience reveal a random material and emergent universe. But there are fundamental problems with all three theories. What is dark energy How did we make the evolutionary leap from ape to human Where does consciousness come from In this Wednesday October [--] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a theory of everything that places mind before matter. Notes and References: [--]. The"
YouTube Link 2025-10-15T10:02Z 1.2M followers, 686K engagements
"Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture In this first lecture Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students why humans adopted agriculture. We now know that there were many consequences due to the transition to agriculture. Hunter-gatherers had an easier more healthier and less disease-prone life. So why did humans make this sacrifice Though there are many explanations most scholars believe that it was the religious impulse that drove humans to choose a sedentary life as evidenced by the archaeological sites of Gobekli Tepe Jericho and Catal Hoyuk"
YouTube Link 2024-08-29T05:58Z 1.2M followers, 382.4K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Isaac Newton founded Christian Zionism which is driving the conflict in the Middle East today. If you want to better understand this topic here are some suggestions for further reading: [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16878 [--]. The Scofield Bible: https://www.bethelbaptistlondon.com/Scofield%20Continuous.pdf [--]. Christian Zionism wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism [--]. Dispensationalism"
YouTube Link 2025-06-28T22:01Z 1.2M followers, 366.7K engagements
"Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave In [---] BCE the Athenian people condemned Socrates to drink hemlock. In this lecture to Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin examines the significance and legacy of the trial of Socrates. During his lifetime Socrates enjoyed exposing Athens' leading intellectuals. He became so notorious that the satirist Aristophanes ridiculed him in a play. Socrates had many admirers though. A group of young aristocrats -- including Plato and Alcibiades -- became his devoted pupils. In [---] BCE the Thirty Tyrants (some of whom were"
YouTube Link 2024-10-22T09:21Z 1.2M followers, 176.2K engagements
"Game Theory #3: Rich Dad Poor Dad In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains who succeeds and why. Notes and References: [--]. The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel [--]. Mindset by Carol Dweck [--]. Peak by K. Anders Ericsson"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T11:03Z 1.2M followers, 753.4K engagements
"Secret History #24: Empire of Church In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Catholic Church became the ultimate empire. Notes and References: [--]. Albigensian Crusade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade [--]. Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_conquest_of_Jerusalem [--]. The Quran"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T09:10Z 1.2M followers, 195.4K engagements
"Secret History #END: Pax Judaica In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Pax Judaica will come to rule the world. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezekiel Hebrew Bible [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel by Isaac Newton [--]. Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn [--]. The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler [--]. Kill King [--] by James Downard and Michael Hoffman [--]. Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank)"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T07:24Z 1.2M followers, 748.7K engagements
"Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean. Notes and References: [--]. History of Rome by Livy [--]. The Aeneid by Virgil [--]. The Iliad by Homer"
YouTube Link 2025-11-25T23:12Z 1.2M followers, 264.1K engagements
"Secret History #27: Empire of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the alliance between the British Empire and the Sabbatean Frankists created modernity. Notes and References: [--]. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli [--]. Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Masson [--]. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud [--]. Aetiology of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Fragments of an Analysis of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Wall Street and the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence [--]. Letters of Karl Marx [--]. Letters of Mikhail Bakunin [--]. Rihland"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T18:29Z 1.2M followers, 282.6K engagements
"Civilization #END: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire In this final talk of the "Civilization" course Jiang Xueqin explains the rise and fall of the American empire. At the [----] Bretton Woods conference America proposed that the dollar should be the world's reserve currency. In return for this "exorbitant privilege" America pledged that its currency could be exchanged for gold. But with America spending exorbitantly to fund the Vietnam War the Space Race and the Great Society countries started to doubt this promise. After France withdrew all its gold from America President Nixon"
YouTube Link 2025-06-12T06:37Z 1.2M followers, 767K engagements
"Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the nature of consciousness as depicted in Homer's Iliad"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T07:06Z 1.2M followers, 143.8K engagements
"Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang examines three major American events. He shows that the official explanations for the JFK assassination the [----] moon landing and 9/11 are problematic. Because Professor Jiang wants to pursue the truth without fear and hesitation he cannot monetize his YouTube channel. Please consider supporting his work. [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T12:21Z 1.2M followers, 504.6K engagements
"Game Theory #7: America's Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains why America is more of a nation-game than it is a nation-state"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T10:28Z 1.2M followers, 368.9K engagements
"Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explore the limitations of schools"
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T05:43Z 1.2M followers, 365.2K engagements
"Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict In his April [--] [----] class Jiang explains the origins and thinking of Christian Zionism and how it is driving conflict in the Middle East. He argues that while most Christians consider Christian Zionism to heretical it has the most potential to capture people's imagination due to the instability uncertainty and extremity of the times we live in today"
YouTube Link 2024-05-08T05:58Z 1.2M followers, 367.4K engagements
"Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse What was the Viking worldview What was their value system Why did they venture out into the world Unfortunately the Vikings maintained an oral tradition most of which was lost after they converted to Christianity. What we do know about the Vikings comes from archaeology and the Norse mythology that was written down in the Poetic and Prose Edda. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin attempts to re-constitute the Viking worldview and argues that their core values were courage loyalty and resourcefulness. He explains the power and"
YouTube Link 2025-03-06T07:56Z 1.2M followers, 51.4K engagements
"Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society The great French sociologist Emile Durkheim once wrote: Religion is above all a system of ideas by which men imagine the society of which they are members and the obscure yet intimate relations they have with it. In this talk Jiang Xueqin explores the origin and purpose of Paleolithic cave paintings. He argues that these paintings expressed pre-historic religious beliefs and practices and they demonstrate that humans have a religious imperative that is just as important as the economic and biological imperatives"
YouTube Link 2024-09-03T10:44Z 1.2M followers, 199.5K engagements
"Game Theory #5: The World Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explain how states rise and fall"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T14:15Z 1.2M followers, 332.3K engagements
"Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia Why did Putin invade Ukraine In this lecture to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that the war in Ukraine is a clash of civilizations. In his novels "Crime and Punishment" and "Brothers Karamazov" Fyodor Dostoevsky captures and expresses the Russian soul. As a Christian Orthodox people the Russians believe the meaning of life is to accept the mystery miracle and authority of the human heart. This contrasts with Anglo-American civilization which proposes a utilitarian and materialistic conception of the universe."
YouTube Link 2025-05-20T05:54Z 826K followers, 133.5K engagements
"Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire Voltaire once wrote: "The Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy nor Roman nor an empire. Historians often see this as a witticism. In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Voltaire was right and the Holy Roman Empire was a useful fiction created to legitimize the rule of Charlemagne and his successors"
YouTube Link 2025-02-27T06:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Slicing Sounds [--] #asmr #bushcraft #survival#kizlyarsupreme #birch #BowieKnife Removing birch bark from a dead birch. This bark is super useful for many things other than jut using a fire tinder. Check my videos to see how. Don't let anyone tell you correctly heat treat 420HC def has a place for big outdoor knives And yes this knife def holds a very good edge"
YouTube Link 2025-11-20T15:24Z 13.9K followers, 18.1K engagements
"Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom Why did China stop being creative after the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that it's because the Ming and Qing dynasties achieved a level of national unity that was not possible in the past. While this national unity ensured the longevity of the emperor and his imperial bureaucracy it made the nation insular and stagnant. The imperial bureaucracy used three mechanisms to monopolize status literacy and culture. The "keju" (civil service examination) focused the energies and"
YouTube Link 2025-03-13T07:15Z 955K followers, 66.4K engagements
"Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions What is the Scientific Revolution and how did it happen Why did it happen in Europe and not anywhere else In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that the Scientific Revolution happened because of a change in focus from asking "What is Truth" to asking "How can we know Truth". To resolve the geocentric vs. heliocentric debate Europeans pioneered the Scientific Method a system of processes and protocols to test and refine hypotheses. This led to an explosion of technological innovation. Jiang Xueqin"
YouTube Link 2025-04-01T06:05Z 935K followers, 48.5K engagements
"Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution The Ottomans Safavids Mughals and Chinese were the first four gunpowder empires. So how did Europe come to conquer the world In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that it's because Europe adopted a whole society approach to warfare. Because of open co-operative competition within Europe nations were forced to transition from feudalism to the nation-state from agriculture to industry and from religion to science. Though these transitions would turn Europe into the dominant military power in the world they would also"
YouTube Link 2025-04-10T05:06Z 1M followers, 57.1K engagements
"Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Dante's Divine Comedy was the intellectual blueprint for the Renaissance the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. In a previous lecture we explored how Augustine's writings would pave the way for Europe's Dark Ages. In his treatise "City of God" Augustine argued that we were born in sin and we can commit only more sin. Though God is perfect we were "created out of nothing" and cannot redeem ourselves. Dante believed"
YouTube Link 2025-01-07T04:41Z 1.1M followers, 125K engagements
"Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains the power and beauty of the Book of Genesis. The chronology of the Pentateuch is confusing and contradictory. Archaeologists and historians have failed to discover any concrete evidence that Noah or Abraham or Moses ever existed. Jiang Xueqin argues that the Bible is not a chronology but a cosmology designed to accomplish three major objectives: [--]. To legitimize King David of Israel. The poet-God Yahweh favored him because he was the first poet-king. [--]. To create a"
YouTube Link 2024-12-10T10:06Z 1.1M followers, 120.7K engagements
"Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History Traditionally we have understood historical movement as either a line or a circle. We are either progressing towards the truth or trapped in an endless loop. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin proposes a new theory which he calls "the oceanic currents of history." When we examine the fall and decline of global empires a pattern emerges. As the empire expands it draws once isolated regions into its orbit. The empire allows these regions to become more prosperous and sophisticated through trade and conflict. Prosperity"
YouTube Link 2025-02-18T09:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains the influence of Zoroastrianism on the development of the Hebrew Bible. After Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon he enabled the Jews to return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple. Ezra oversaw major religious reforms including the creation and redaction of what we know today as the Hebrew Bible. Because of the influence of Zoroastrianism the Bible began to emphasize eschatology which in turn will pave the way for Christianity"
YouTube Link 2024-12-12T05:15Z 899K followers, 71.4K engagements
"Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe Homo sapiens originated in Africa [------] years ago and for the vast majority of our history we were egalitarian peaceful and artistic. So where did concepts of patriarchy war and private property come from The Yamnaya people are nomadic pastoralists who originated in the Eurasian Steppes. They worshipped the Sky Father and excelled at waging war. Slowly their culture spread throughout the Steppes before conquering Europe Iran and India"
YouTube Link 2024-09-12T05:34Z 818K followers, 73.6K engagements
"Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia: At the beginning of [----] Saudi Arabia and Iran were friendly with each other. Both were America-aligned oil-exporting monarchies. Irans Islamic Revolution was a political earthquake that promised to topple the entire Middle East political order. Ever since Saudi Arabia and Iran have been bitter religious economic and geo-political rivals. After Americas [----] invasion of Iraq Iran seemed dominant. In [----] Riyadh"
YouTube Link 2024-05-15T08:28Z 985K followers, 126.2K engagements
"Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War In his book The Peloponnesian War Thucydides explains that the war started because Sparta saw Athens as a threat to its hegemony. In this talk Jiang Xueqin argues that the American scientist James Calhouns rat utopia experiments offer a better explanation. In the 1950s and 1960s James Calhoun conducted experiments in which colonies of rats were put into worlds of plenty and abundance. All these experiments ended in disaster. Rather than enjoying paradise the rats violently fought amongst themselves and their social order collapsed. Why did"
YouTube Link 2024-10-15T09:11Z 820K followers, 89.6K engagements
"Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas For centuries linguists have believed that most European languages have so many similarities that they must have originated from a mother language which is referred to as "Proto-Indo-European." Decades of work in linguistics have confirmed the existence of this language. But how did this language spread The Lithuanian anthropologist Marija Gimbutas proposed her Kurgan Hypothesis and argued that Old Europe was an egalitarian peaceful and artistic civilization that was conquered by a patriarchal hierarchal and warlike culture"
YouTube Link 2024-09-10T09:49Z 1.1M followers, 125.7K engagements
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YouTube Link 2025-11-21T08:34Z 33.3K followers, 206K engagements
"Civilization #55: Kant Hegel and the Theory of Everything What is the legacy of Immanuel Kant considered our greatest philosopher In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Kant's insights had a tremendous impact on the development of neuroscience artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics. Kant's philosophical revolution was equivalent to that of the Copernican revolution in astronomy. With his precise logic Kant showed us that we were active participants in the making of reality rather than just passive observers. But Kant's epistemology had three major"
YouTube Link 2025-05-27T05:42Z 995K followers, 154.8K engagements
"Civilization #32: Rome's Rise Fall and Legacy How was Rome able to defeat all its powerful enemies in the Mediterranean world Why did Rome decline and fall What is Rome's influence on the world today What lessons can we learn from it In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was Rome's distinct cultural system (which focused on liberty public virtue and piety) which permitted it to triumph over its rivals. But after Rome became an empire this cultural system made it difficult for it to govern. Because America intentionally modeled itself after Rome we can"
YouTube Link 2025-02-20T05:25Z 1.1M followers, 155.1K engagements
"Geo-Strategy #3: How Empire is Destroying America In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains to his Chinese high school students how empire is eroding the stability and vitality of the American Republic: From 1950-1980 America's manufacturing sector accounted for [--] percent of GDP employed [--] percent of its workforce and enjoyed [--] percent of total profits. Today it's only [--] percent of GDP and the financial services sector is ascendant. Financial services account for [--] percent of GDP enjoy [--] percent of profits and employs [--] percent of America's workforce. This trend has led to income"
YouTube Link 2024-05-10T07:59Z 935K followers, 657.8K engagements
"Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire The Byzantine empire saw itself as the continuation of the Roman empire. In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Constantinople and Rome had opposing cultural systems. Rome was a pagan Latin republic and Constantinople was a Christian multicultural empire"
YouTube Link 2025-02-25T10:22Z 887K followers, 77.7K engagements
"Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) In his Friday May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explores who will win the US Presidential election in November: Joe Biden's [----] coalition of college-educated professionals minority voters twenty-somethings and suburbanites may not hold in [----]. Voters are upset about inflation illegal immigration and foreign policy direction. If Trump picks Nikki Haley to be his running mate he has a very good chance of winning the suburbs and thus the Presidency. Because of her ties to anti-Iranian organizations Nikki Haley may become the"
YouTube Link 2024-05-17T05:50Z 1.1M followers, 115.6K engagements
"New car day #ferrari355 #ferraribarnfind #ferrarirestoration #cliassicferrari"
YouTube Link 2025-11-21T14:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra In this Friday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Zarathustra create monotheism. Notes and References: [--]. Gathas of Zarathustra [--]. Poetry of Rumi [--]. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche [--]. Pablo Vasquez Lecture on Gathas: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CbBGuc7zbGY&t=4674s [--]. Zoroaster and the First Enlightenment: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=M5ZlnucQceI Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:"
YouTube Link 2025-11-14T18:35Z 1.2M followers, 387.7K engagements
"Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution The Renaissance was a re-imagining of Classical Greece in a Christian European context a spirit that would birth modernity. How did it start Scholars argued that the Renaissance came about due to a perfect storm of structural factors. The build-up of commercial trade the re-discovery of Greco-Roman thinkers and the development of intellectual centers (such as universities and monasteries) were among the most important. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was Dante's Divine Comedy that would spark the confident"
YouTube Link 2025-03-25T06:11Z 1.1M followers, 93.1K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch Why did Putin invade Ukraine What is his endgame How did he come from nowhere to become the most powerful man in Russia In this talk Professor Jiang offers a hypothesis and three predictions. He believes that there is a secret nexus of power within Russia that sees Putin as the Second Coming of Stalin who will unite the Orthodox world and restore the Byzantine empire. From this hypothesis we can make three predictions: 1.) Odessa will be a cataclysmic battle between NATO and Russia. 2.) China and Russia will have a falling out. 3.) Russia will"
YouTube Link 2025-07-18T14:55Z 1.2M followers, 324.8K engagements
"Secret History #26: Faith of Evil In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the religious outlook of Jacob Frank. Notes and References: [--]. The Collection of the Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank) translated by Harris Lenowitz) [--]. "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" by William Butler Yeats [--]. Faust by Goethe"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 412.8K engagements
"Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus Messiah of Rome Why are the teachings of Jesus and his apostle Paul so different Jesus preached compassion and mercy towards all while Paul preached that Jesus was the son of God who atoned for our sins with his sacrifice. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin presents a unique perspective on Pauls motivations. He argues that Paul was an agent of the Roman empire who wanted to use Jesus to combat messianic Judaism. The Roman empire and the Jews would fight three costly wars and the fanaticism of the Jews would awe and scare the Romans."
YouTube Link 2024-12-19T05:03Z 1.2M followers, 219.6K engagements
"Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human In this Wednesday January [--] [----] talk to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that to be human is to "hear yourself speak.""
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T08:44Z 1.2M followers, 150.2K engagements
"Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that the people of the steppes were history's greatest conquerors because they were the most open energetic cohesive. Notes and References: [--]. The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha [--]. The Horse the Wheel and Language by David Anthony Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-31T12:02Z 1.2M followers, 251K engagements
"Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project For thousands of years the Great Pyramid of Giza has captivated and captured the imagination of the world. Why was it built In this lecture to Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues against the mainstream theory that the Great Pyramid was built as a grand tomb for the Pharaoh. He argues that the Great Pyramid was Ancient Egypts Manhattan Project an attempt to unravel the secrets of the universe and channel the power of God to create eternal peace on Earth"
YouTube Link 2024-11-26T09:21Z 1.2M followers, 186.6K engagements
"Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy Plato and Aristotle are considered the two most influential philosophers of Western antiquity. But there are three central paradoxes surrounding the life and work of Aristotle. He is considered a brilliant thinker but we do not have any of his original writings. Over two hundred works are attributed to him and the range of his works is extra-ordinary and super-human hes written about metaphysics rhetoric theater politics ethics physics and biology. Finally while he studied under Plato for twenty years his empirical approach to epistemology"
YouTube Link 2024-11-05T09:50Z 1.2M followers, 96K engagements
"Civilization #50: Rule Britannia How did England -- a poor and divided island -- become the world's greatest empire In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that England succeeded because it was a poor and divided island. Throughout most of its history the different peoples of Britain were engaged in open co-operative competition. Their division meant that foreign invaders could come and conquer them which led to creative destruction. The conflict and poverty within the island forced many to migrate which led to colonial expansion. These structural forces would"
YouTube Link 2025-05-08T07:31Z 1.2M followers, 93.1K engagements
"Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy The Western world is in decline. Immigration is tearing apart the social contract and causing ethnic tensions. Young people cannot find work and can no longer afford a house. Debt is crippling governments and households. In his Tuesday August [--] [----] class to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that these trends are caused by the aging crisis in which rich pensioners are dictating policy to the detriment of everyone else. He predicts that the gerontocracy will lead to the rise of militaristic and authoritarian governments. Please"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T05:08Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam The Abbasid Caliphate was considered the Golden Age of Islam. Before the Mongolian conquest the House of Wisdom in Baghdad was the global center of learning and literacy. Muslim scientists and mathematicians were respected and influential even in Europe. Why did the Islamic world enter its Golden Age while Europe was stuck in its Dark Ages Why did this Golden Age come to an end Why did Christianity eventually overtake the Islamic world In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Islam was an intellectual revolution"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T10:10Z 1.2M followers, 464.1K engagements
"Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer gave birth to Greek civilization humanity's creative peak. Notes and References: [--]. The Iliad by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles) [--]. Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes [--]. The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby [--]. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [--]. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf"
YouTube Link 2025-11-06T08:34Z 1.2M followers, 289.2K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Christian Zionism dominates American Middle East policy. He introduces the universal law of game theory which helps reveal how the world works. He also discusses how Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah. Please support Professor Jiang's work by buying him a cup of coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory References: [--]. This is a MUST READ paper if you want to understand how and why Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah: The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in [---] CE Compared with"
YouTube Link 2025-07-11T16:12Z 1.2M followers, 302.3K engagements
"Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing Viewer Discretion Advised) What is mind control and how does it work In his Wednesday September [--] [----] lecture to Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how mind control techniques originated in ancient Egypt. Priests developed these techniques to control the Pharaoh and they became embedded into Egyptian mythology. Today these ancient mind control techniques are still used. Please Support Professor Jiang: In order to openly and freely discuss controversial topics Professor Jiang does not monetize his YouTube"
YouTube Link 2025-09-11T00:09Z 1.2M followers, 858.9K engagements
"Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Paul created Christianity. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of John New Testament [--]. Acts of the Apostles New Testament [--]. Letter to Romans New Testament [--]. Letter to Corinthians New Testament [--]. City of God by Augustine"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T22:49Z 1.2M followers, 451.2K engagements
"Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy We have understood Western civilization to be composed of four major traditions -- that of the Greeks Romans Jews and Christians. In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that the Viking legacy is just as important for the development of Western civilization. During the Viking Age (793 - [----] CE) the Vikings would interact with and influence the regions from which would emerge the nation-states of Great Britain France Germany and Russia. These four became world empires. They were also for the past four hundred years the greatest"
YouTube Link 2025-03-04T08:03Z 1.2M followers, 214K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming In this video Professor Jiang offers his perspective on the imminent US-Iran War. He points out Iran has many advantages but there are three unknowns that would alter the trajectory of the war. Will the US and Israel be able to assassinate Iran's supreme leader What will Putin do How will China respond"
YouTube Link 2025-06-18T13:22Z 1.2M followers, 596.3K engagements
"Civilization #9: Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy What made Athenian democracy so strong and vibrant Jiang Xueqin explains that theater taught Athenians how to be democratic citizens. The three major dramatists were Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus' Oresteia offered a mythology of democracy showing that democracy was a gift from Athena herself and that by practicing it well Athenians could make the whole world more just fair and righteous. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex trilogy revealed the dangers and tragedy of a monarchy. In his "hubris" Oedipus of Thebes"
YouTube Link 2024-10-17T04:42Z 1.2M followers, 82.6K engagements
"Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explains why Putin is preparing to mobilize Russian society for total war: Putin's favorite philosopher Aleksandr Dugin believes that Russia and the West are fighting Samuel Huntington's War of Civilizations in Ukraine. What does he mean by this In the late eighties Francis Fukuyama published his "End of History" essay which argued that liberal democracy and consumerism are humanity's best conception of itself and therefore history has ceased to be a dialectical argument. Both Dugin and Putin believe"
YouTube Link 2024-05-31T05:58Z 1.2M followers, 382.2K engagements
"Secret History #25: Capital of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how transnational capital came to dominate the world"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T14:05Z 1.2M followers, 332.1K engagements
"Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs Why is there evil in the world In his Thursday August [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how secret societies operate and why they're the true centers of power in the world. Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper into this topic please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-world-4 In his most recent post Professor Jiang analyzes why America's rich and powerful would fly to Epstein Island. [--]. In order to discuss"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T09:18Z 1.2M followers, 2.4M engagements
"Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God Who was the historical Muhammad How did Islam triumph over both the Byzantine and Sasanian empires In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Islam was the first global revolution. While the Byzantine and Sasanian empires appeared to be superpowers they were weak and fragile due to decades of plague war and succession struggles. The Arabian peninsula seemed like a primitive and backward desert but it was actually a hotbed of innovation. As traders the Arabs were open-minded sophisticated and cosmopolitan. Constant"
YouTube Link 2025-01-02T04:54Z 1.2M followers, 285K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed The Western world is facing unprecedented levels of immigration inflation and economic malaise. Professor Jiang argues that these are symptoms. The real disease is the selfishness and hubris of the Baby Boomers who are the most powerful demographic in the West. They want to maintain their pension their free healthcare and their property values -- even if that means burning the world down. References: [--]. Rat Utopia experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink [--]. Elite Overproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction"
YouTube Link 2025-08-08T14:20Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil Where do secret societies come from What do they teach On Friday September [--] [----] Professor Jiang lectured on the development of the religious tradition in the West. References: [--]. The Book of Enoch [--]. The Gospel of Thomas [--]. Paradise Lost by John Milton [--]. The Book of Genesis [--]. "The Secret History of the World" by Mark Booth Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com [--]. In order to discuss sensitive topics freely and openly Professor Jiang"
YouTube Link 2025-09-05T21:12Z 1.2M followers, 996.9K engagements
"Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven In his Wednesday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a new theory on the birth of civilizations. Notes and References: [--]. Theogony by Hesiod [--]. Epic of Gilgamesh [--]. Enuma Elish [--]. Debate between Sheep and Grain Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-13-twilight-of-the [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T08:29Z 1.2M followers, 335.3K engagements
"Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War In his June [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin explores how and why America would fight a second Civil War: Right now America is suffering three trends that make civil war more and more likely: a.) Increasing political polarization driven by the culture wars and inequality. b.) Breakdown of the narratives that bind America especially the American Dream and liberalism. c.) Growing distrust of America's national institutions including the government media science military universities and justice system. If Trump wins in November we can expect riots and"
YouTube Link 2024-06-07T06:43Z 1.2M followers, 569.6K engagements
"Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy We like to believe that a meritocracy is the best way to pick society's winners and losers. In this Friday September [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang argues that the meritocracy is destroying America. He argues that Harvard created the meritocracy for its own benefit. Harvard's endowment has skyrocketed at the expense of American democracy social mobility and political unity. Notes and References: [--]. Read this Nature article on how the Ivy League controls elite production:"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T22:20Z 1.2M followers, 673K engagements
"Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse In this lecture Professor Jiang explains the three theories as to why and how societies rise and fall: the financialization of society elite over-production and the civilization life cycle. Recommended Readings: [--]. Please do yourself a favor and read Thomas Pikettys Capital in the 21st Century. Its surprisingly clear and simple and his evidence is striking and overwhelming. [--]. Its essential to read Peter Turchin. Start off with one of his earlier works: War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires. [--]. C. Wright Mills The Power Elite is a"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T20:39Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi In his May [--] [----] class Jiang Xueqin examines if Iran President Ebrahim Raisi's death was an accident or an assassination: On May [--] Iran President Raisi's helicopter crashed into the mountains killing all nine on board. Most experts believe it was a weather-related accident. There are skeptics who believed that powerful forces within Iran stood to gain from Raisi's death. Raisi was expected to become the next Iranian supreme leader and now Mojtaba Khamenei (the current Ayatollah's second son) is the favorite. Under the current"
YouTube Link 2024-05-24T12:12Z 1.2M followers, 125K engagements
"Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination In his Tuesday October [--] [----] class Professor Jiang argues against Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. He believes that humans from the beginning were spiritual compassionate and artistic. Reference: [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T10:31Z 1.2M followers, 368.3K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins Let's Game Theory Last night the Americans bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. The US-Iran War has begun. How will this war play out In this video Professor Jiang uses game theory to examine the motivations interests and strategies of the three main players: Iran Israel and the United States. He argues that according to game theory the United States will commit to a ground invasion of Iran"
YouTube Link 2025-06-22T16:55Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Secret History #17: Literary Genesis In this Wednesday November 12th lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Yahwehist gave birth to the Bible as well as the nation of Israel. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Genesis Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of Kings Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of J by Harold Bloom Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-17-the-book-of-j [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 277.2K engagements
"Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire How did Shakespeare father the British empire In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that it was Shakespeare's innovations in syntax and diction that transformed English into the linguistic Internet. Cultures ideologies and peoples could now meet on this Internet and have their ideas and values pollinate and cross-breed within the framework of British civilization. References: 1.) Hamlet by William Shakespeare 2.) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 3.) "To Autumn" by John Keats"
YouTube Link 2025-05-14T09:35Z 1.2M followers, 71.5K engagements
"Civilization #59: The Man of Steel How did a poor Georgian high school drop-out help lead a fringe and fanatical political party (the Bolsheviks) into absolute power in Russia How was Stalin able to eliminate his competitors How did he defeat Hitler in World War II In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Stalin was the "ubermensch" the man of steel who willed a new reality into being. Lenin could not have maintained the Bolsheviks without financing from Stalin's criminal activities. After the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War Lenin was intent on"
YouTube Link 2025-06-10T11:17Z 1.2M followers, 195.3K engagements
"Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse In this lecture Jiang Xueqin explores with his Chinese students why the Bronze Age collapsed. In the year [----] BCE the world was globalized and prosperous. Nations shared people ideas and goods. A few decades later the Bronze Age collapsed. Mycenaean Greece and Hittite Anatolia were destroyed and the Sea Peoples ravaged Egypt. Scholars disagree on what caused this collapse. Some argued it was a northern invasion while others believed there was a cataclysmic natural disaster. The scholarly consensus now is this systems collapse"
YouTube Link 2024-10-08T09:26Z 1.2M followers, 160.5K engagements
"Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains how the Protestant Reformation birthed capitalism. Martin Luther and John Calvin saw the Catholic Church as inherently and irredeemably corrupt. Martin Luther proposed "justification by faith" which argued that Christians can only be redeemed by their unwavering faith in God (regardless of how much money they donated to the Church). John Calvin proposed the concept of "double pre-destination" which argued that God at the beginning of time had decided"
YouTube Link 2025-03-27T07:53Z 1.2M followers, 168.5K engagements
"Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination Jiang Xueqin examines two case studies that highlight the power of religion. In his book "The Wayfinders" the Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis looks at the animistic cosmology and the shamanistic rituals of the Barasana people of the Amazon. In his book "The Forest People" the British anthropologist Colin Turnbull observes the religion permeates every aspect of the life of the Pygmies. For religious people their collective faith is more real than reality itself and is the source of all that is good in the world. Jiang Xueqin argues that throughout"
YouTube Link 2024-09-05T10:15Z 1.2M followers, 145.9K engagements
"Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth In this lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the religious imagination inspired humans to Heavenly achievements. Notes and References: [--]. The Wayfinders by Wade Davis [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. The Forest People by Colin Turnbull Please support the work of Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T12:08Z 1.2M followers, 436.9K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge In this talk Professor Jiang offers his geo-political predictions for the next twenty years. He first analyzes the major eschatological traditions (Zoroastrian Judaic Christian Zionist Islamic Orthodox and Catholic) to estimate their convergence points. This allows him to imagine a framework for predicting geo-politics. His major predictions: [--]. The United States will lose a ground war against Iran. [--]. NATOs defense of Odessa will trigger political revolutions and upheaval throughout Europe. [--]. Israel will destroy the Dome of the Rock"
YouTube Link 2025-08-01T17:12Z 1.2M followers, 227.1K engagements
"Civilization #24: Resurrecting the Gnostic Jesus Who was the historical Jesus and what did he believe In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Jesus was a unique religious genius who synthesized the major global religions of his day to create a new religion which we today refer to as Gnosticism. Like other great religious leaders Jesus had a three-tier gospel. To the public he taught that true faith demanded compassion. To his disciples he taught that true faith demanded self-sacrifice. Then there were the secret teachings that he shared with his proteges."
YouTube Link 2024-12-17T04:51Z 1.2M followers, 316.6K engagements
"Secret History #1: How Power Works In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further Reading: If you enjoy this lecture"
YouTube Link 2025-08-21T04:19Z 1.2M followers, 796.4K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling What motivates Trump Netanyahu and Khamenei In this talk Professor Jiang explains that all three have a messianic calling"
YouTube Link 2025-06-25T12:00Z 1.2M followers, 433.6K engagements
"Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality In this lecture to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains why Mesopotamia became the cradle of civilization. He explains that geography determined the destinies and mythologies of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Protected by natural boundaries and nurtured by the bountiful Nile Egypt believed in benevolent Gods. Mesopotamia had no natural boundaries and its two rivers -- the Euphrates and Tigris -- were mercurial and chaotic which led people to believe that the Gods demanded their servitude and struggle. This belief is"
YouTube Link 2024-11-28T04:55Z 1.2M followers, 78.6K engagements
"Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth How did a young Corsican become Emperor of France in [----] In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that it was Napoleon's myth-making genius that seduced the French people and killed the fledging French Republic. In this way Napoleon was like Caesar and Hitler. Will Trump take America down the same path"
YouTube Link 2025-04-29T05:28Z 1.2M followers, 56K engagements
"Game Theory #1: The Dating Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang introduces the concept of game theory and how it applies to the dating game"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T14:07Z 1.2M followers, 714.4K engagements
"Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy Notes and References: [--]. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt [--]. The Trial by Franz Kafka [--]. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott [--]. For this talk I relied heavily on the work of Michael Zanini. His Substack is here: https://revitalize.substack.com/p/why-the-federal-bureaucracy-keeps [--]. The article on the ballooning bureaucracy of Swedish higher education can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-023-09408-x [--]. The CNN article on how USC punished the professor is here:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-11T01:11Z 1.2M followers, 454.9K engagements
"Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T16:37Z 1.2M followers, 789.2K engagements
"Civilization #39: Genghis Khan World Shatterer Genghis Khan is considered the world's greatest conquerer. Why was he so successful In this talk to his Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin argues that Genghis Khan had the same characteristics as other great conquerors such as Sargon of Akkad Philip of Macedon and Julius Caesar. Genghis Khan believed that he had a divine mission to re-make the world. In overcoming hardship and defeat Genghis Khan came to recognize his mission and committed himself to completing it. He united the warring Mongol tribes into a professional meritocratic and"
YouTube Link 2025-03-18T05:52Z 1.2M followers, 127K engagements
"Civilization #17: Homer Vergil and the War for the Soul of Rome In this talk to Chinese high school students Jiang Xueqin explains why Vergil's "The Aeneid" is such brilliant propaganda. In [--] BCE the Roman Senate declared Octavian "Augustus" making him effectively the first emperor. But Augustus Caesar still had three problems. First he needed to establish his legitimacy and authority. To do so he promoted the myth that his Julii family were descendants of Aeneas and thus Rome's very first family. Second he needed to establish a new Roman cultural identity that emphasized "piety" over"
YouTube Link 2024-11-21T05:17Z 1.2M followers, 55K engagements
"Civilization #54: The German Will to Power What explains the rise of Adolf Hitler In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Hitler was a manifestation of the German obsession with the unity of will. After the humiliating defeat of World War I and amidst the economic turmoil of the Weimar Republic Germans sought salvation and redemption in their civilization especially the music of Richard Wagner and the philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche. They longed for an "ubermensch" to emerge and Hitler rose to the occasion. References: [--]. The World as Will and"
YouTube Link 2025-05-22T06:48Z 1.2M followers, 457.7K engagements
"Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the true teachings of Jesus. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of Thomas [--]. Gospel of Matthew [--]. Divine Comedy by Dante [--]. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky"
YouTube Link 2025-11-27T08:28Z 1.2M followers, 426.9K engagements
"Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything Freud proposed the theory of the Oedipal Complex. Where did he get the idea Why did it become so popular In this talk to his Beijing high school students Jiang Xueqin explains that Freud developed his psychological theories in order to protect the interests of the powerful. His protege Carl Jung would take Freud's theory of the unconscious and turn it into a systemic model of human psychology. Because of modernist literature and art this "cult of the self" has permeated throughout the entire culture becoming the air we breathe. This has led to"
YouTube Link 2025-06-04T02:58Z 1.2M followers, 184.7K engagements
"Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Bronze Age global trade network was a proto-capitalistic system and therefore bound to collapse hard and fast. Notes and References: [--]. Debt by David Graeber [--]. [----] BC by Eric H. Cline [--]. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely [--]. "Power Causes Brain Damage" in the Atlantic Monthly: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/ Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate:"
YouTube Link 2025-11-04T10:49Z 1.2M followers, 257.4K engagements
"Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang In this video Professor Jiang introduces himself and answers the following three questions: [--]. How did this "Civilization" course get started and where is it going [--]. What is the Predictive History project [--]. What are Professor Jiang's long-term professional ambitions Viewers are invited to ask questions in the comments section. Professor Jiang will answer to the best of his ability"
YouTube Link 2025-06-13T05:00Z 1.2M followers, 171.8K engagements
"Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Alexander the Great birthed the Hellenistic world. Notes and References: [--]. Histories by Herodotus [--]. The Peloponnesian World by Thucydides"
YouTube Link 2025-11-20T07:46Z 1.2M followers, 238.2K engagements
"Game Theory #8: Communist Specter In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the origins of Communism. Notes and References: [--]. "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels [--]. "Wall Street and the Russian Revolution" by Richard B. Spence"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T04:55Z 1.2M followers, 222.9K engagements
"Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the nature of consciousness as depicted in Homer's Iliad"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T07:06Z 1.2M followers, 143.8K engagements
"Game Theory #7: America's Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains why America is more of a nation-game than it is a nation-state"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T10:28Z 1.2M followers, 368.9K engagements
"Game Theory #6: The World's Bank In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the British empire evolved into an offshore financial system"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T05:55Z 1.2M followers, 529.2K engagements
"Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets In this Wednesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer created Greek civilization. Reference: [--]. "Defense of Poetry" by Percy Shelley"
YouTube Link 2026-01-21T06:47Z 1.2M followers, 128.3K engagements
"Game Theory #5: The World Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explain how states rise and fall"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T14:15Z 1.2M followers, 332.3K engagements
"Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses the example of immigration to illustrate how games are rigged. Notes and References: "What Makes You Click: Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating" (MIT Sloan Working Paper February 2006) Download the paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=895442"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T05:49Z 1.2M followers, 350.3K engagements
"Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human In this Wednesday January [--] [----] talk to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that to be human is to "hear yourself speak.""
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T08:44Z 1.2M followers, 150.2K engagements
"Game Theory #3: Rich Dad Poor Dad In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains who succeeds and why. Notes and References: [--]. The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel [--]. Mindset by Carol Dweck [--]. Peak by K. Anders Ericsson"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T11:03Z 1.2M followers, 753.4K engagements
"Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck In this Thursday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang uses game theory to explore the limitations of schools"
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T05:43Z 1.2M followers, 365.2K engagements
"Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe What are the Great Books In this introductory lecture Professor Jiang explains that the Great Books are meant to help us achieve our true human potential by revealing the secrets of the universe. This semester Professor Jiang will discuss five Great Books: [--]. The Iliad by Homer [--]. The Odyssey by Homer [--]. The Republic by Plato [--]. The Aeneid by Vergil [--]. The Divine Comedy by Dante"
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T08:51Z 1.2M followers, 480.7K engagements
"Game Theory #1: The Dating Game In this Tuesday January [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang introduces the concept of game theory and how it applies to the dating game"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T14:07Z 1.2M followers, 714.4K engagements
"Secret History #END: Pax Judaica In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Pax Judaica will come to rule the world. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezekiel Hebrew Bible [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel by Isaac Newton [--]. Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn [--]. The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler [--]. Kill King [--] by James Downard and Michael Hoffman [--]. Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank)"
YouTube Link 2025-12-18T07:24Z 1.2M followers, 748.7K engagements
"Secret History #27: Empire of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the alliance between the British Empire and the Sabbatean Frankists created modernity. Notes and References: [--]. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli [--]. Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Masson [--]. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud [--]. Aetiology of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Fragments of an Analysis of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud [--]. Wall Street and the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence [--]. Letters of Karl Marx [--]. Letters of Mikhail Bakunin [--]. Rihland"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T18:29Z 1.2M followers, 282.6K engagements
"Secret History #26: Faith of Evil In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the religious outlook of Jacob Frank. Notes and References: [--]. The Collection of the Words of the Lord (Jacob Frank) translated by Harris Lenowitz) [--]. "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" by William Butler Yeats [--]. Faust by Goethe"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 412.8K engagements
"Secret History #25: Capital of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how transnational capital came to dominate the world"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T14:05Z 1.2M followers, 332.1K engagements
"Secret History #24: Empire of Church In this Thursday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Catholic Church became the ultimate empire. Notes and References: [--]. Albigensian Crusade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade [--]. Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_conquest_of_Jerusalem [--]. The Quran"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T09:10Z 1.2M followers, 195.4K engagements
"Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil In this Tuesday December [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Paul created Christianity. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of John New Testament [--]. Acts of the Apostles New Testament [--]. Letter to Romans New Testament [--]. Letter to Corinthians New Testament [--]. City of God by Augustine"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T22:49Z 1.2M followers, 451.2K engagements
"Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains the true teachings of Jesus. Notes and References: [--]. Gospel of Thomas [--]. Gospel of Matthew [--]. Divine Comedy by Dante [--]. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky"
YouTube Link 2025-11-27T08:28Z 1.2M followers, 426.9K engagements
"Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean. Notes and References: [--]. History of Rome by Livy [--]. The Aeneid by Virgil [--]. The Iliad by Homer"
YouTube Link 2025-11-25T23:12Z 1.2M followers, 264.1K engagements
"Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how and why Alexander the Great birthed the Hellenistic world. Notes and References: [--]. Histories by Herodotus [--]. The Peloponnesian World by Thucydides"
YouTube Link 2025-11-20T07:46Z 1.2M followers, 238.2K engagements
"Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that the Persians constructed the Jewish identity in order to divide and rule the Levant. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Ezra Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) [--]. Book of Nehemiah Hebrew Bible (Standard Revised edition) Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T16:29Z 1.2M followers, 634.5K engagements
"Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra In this Friday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Zarathustra create monotheism. Notes and References: [--]. Gathas of Zarathustra [--]. Poetry of Rumi [--]. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche [--]. Pablo Vasquez Lecture on Gathas: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=CbBGuc7zbGY&t=4674s [--]. Zoroaster and the First Enlightenment: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=M5ZlnucQceI Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:"
YouTube Link 2025-11-14T18:35Z 1.2M followers, 387.7K engagements
"Secret History #17: Literary Genesis In this Wednesday November 12th lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Yahwehist gave birth to the Bible as well as the nation of Israel. Notes and References: [--]. Book of Genesis Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of Kings Hebrew Bible [--]. Book of J by Harold Bloom Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-17-the-book-of-j [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 277.2K engagements
"Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization In this Thursday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how Homer gave birth to Greek civilization humanity's creative peak. Notes and References: [--]. The Iliad by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles) [--]. Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes [--]. The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby [--]. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [--]. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf"
YouTube Link 2025-11-06T08:34Z 1.2M followers, 289.2K engagements
"Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse In this Tuesday November [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the Bronze Age global trade network was a proto-capitalistic system and therefore bound to collapse hard and fast. Notes and References: [--]. Debt by David Graeber [--]. [----] BC by Eric H. Cline [--]. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely [--]. "Power Causes Brain Damage" in the Atlantic Monthly: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/ Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate:"
YouTube Link 2025-11-04T10:49Z 1.2M followers, 257.4K engagements
"Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that the people of the steppes were history's greatest conquerors because they were the most open energetic cohesive. Notes and References: [--]. The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas [--]. Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha [--]. The Horse the Wheel and Language by David Anthony Please Support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-31T12:02Z 1.2M followers, 251K engagements
"Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven In his Wednesday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a new theory on the birth of civilizations. Notes and References: [--]. Theogony by Hesiod [--]. Epic of Gilgamesh [--]. Enuma Elish [--]. Debate between Sheep and Grain Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/secret-history-13-twilight-of-the [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T08:29Z 1.2M followers, 335.3K engagements
"Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth In this lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how the religious imagination inspired humans to Heavenly achievements. Notes and References: [--]. The Wayfinders by Wade Davis [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. The Forest People by Colin Turnbull Please support the work of Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T12:08Z 1.2M followers, 436.9K engagements
"Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination In his Tuesday October [--] [----] class Professor Jiang argues against Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. He believes that humans from the beginning were spiritual compassionate and artistic. Reference: [--]. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [--]. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Please support Professor Jiang: [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/predictivehistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter: https://x.com/xueqinjiang"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T10:31Z 1.2M followers, 368.3K engagements
"Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil In this Friday October [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang examines three major American events. He shows that the official explanations for the JFK assassination the [----] moon landing and 9/11 are problematic. Because Professor Jiang wants to pursue the truth without fear and hesitation he cannot monetize his YouTube channel. Please consider supporting his work. [--]. Donate to him: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory [--]. Subscribe to his Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/ [--]. Follow him on X/Twitter:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T12:21Z 1.2M followers, 504.6K engagements
"Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything Where did we come from Why are we here Where are we going Scientists tell us they have all the solutions. The Big Bang Theory Evolution and Neuroscience reveal a random material and emergent universe. But there are fundamental problems with all three theories. What is dark energy How did we make the evolutionary leap from ape to human Where does consciousness come from In this Wednesday October [--] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang proposes a theory of everything that places mind before matter. Notes and References: [--]. The"
YouTube Link 2025-10-15T10:02Z 1.2M followers, 686K engagements
"Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy Notes and References: [--]. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt [--]. The Trial by Franz Kafka [--]. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott [--]. For this talk I relied heavily on the work of Michael Zanini. His Substack is here: https://revitalize.substack.com/p/why-the-federal-bureaucracy-keeps [--]. The article on the ballooning bureaucracy of Swedish higher education can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-023-09408-x [--]. The CNN article on how USC punished the professor is here:"
YouTube Link 2025-10-11T01:11Z 1.2M followers, 454.9K engagements
"Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy We like to believe that a meritocracy is the best way to pick society's winners and losers. In this Friday September [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang argues that the meritocracy is destroying America. He argues that Harvard created the meritocracy for its own benefit. Harvard's endowment has skyrocketed at the expense of American democracy social mobility and political unity. Notes and References: [--]. Read this Nature article on how the Ivy League controls elite production:"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T22:20Z 1.2M followers, 673K engagements
"Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing Viewer Discretion Advised) What is mind control and how does it work In his Wednesday September [--] [----] lecture to Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how mind control techniques originated in ancient Egypt. Priests developed these techniques to control the Pharaoh and they became embedded into Egyptian mythology. Today these ancient mind control techniques are still used. Please Support Professor Jiang: In order to openly and freely discuss controversial topics Professor Jiang does not monetize his YouTube"
YouTube Link 2025-09-11T00:09Z 1.2M followers, 858.9K engagements
"Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil Where do secret societies come from What do they teach On Friday September [--] [----] Professor Jiang lectured on the development of the religious tradition in the West. References: [--]. The Book of Enoch [--]. The Gospel of Thomas [--]. Paradise Lost by John Milton [--]. The Book of Genesis [--]. "The Secret History of the World" by Mark Booth Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com [--]. In order to discuss sensitive topics freely and openly Professor Jiang"
YouTube Link 2025-09-05T21:12Z 1.2M followers, 996.9K engagements
"Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs Why is there evil in the world In his Thursday August [--] [----] lecture to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains how secret societies operate and why they're the true centers of power in the world. Please Support Professor Jiang's Work: [--]. If you'd like to delve deeper into this topic please subscribe to Professor Jiang's Substack: https://predictivehistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-world-4 In his most recent post Professor Jiang analyzes why America's rich and powerful would fly to Epstein Island. [--]. In order to discuss"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T09:18Z 1.2M followers, 2.4M engagements
"Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy The Western world is in decline. Immigration is tearing apart the social contract and causing ethnic tensions. Young people cannot find work and can no longer afford a house. Debt is crippling governments and households. In his Tuesday August [--] [----] class to his Beijing high school students Professor Jiang explains that these trends are caused by the aging crisis in which rich pensioners are dictating policy to the detriment of everyone else. He predicts that the gerontocracy will lead to the rise of militaristic and authoritarian governments. Please"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T05:08Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse In this lecture Professor Jiang explains the three theories as to why and how societies rise and fall: the financialization of society elite over-production and the civilization life cycle. Recommended Readings: [--]. Please do yourself a favor and read Thomas Pikettys Capital in the 21st Century. Its surprisingly clear and simple and his evidence is striking and overwhelming. [--]. Its essential to read Peter Turchin. Start off with one of his earlier works: War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires. [--]. C. Wright Mills The Power Elite is a"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T20:39Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T16:37Z 1.2M followers, 789.2K engagements
"Secret History #1: How Power Works In this lecture Professor Jiang proposes that by studying geo-politics we can develop analytical frameworks that permit us to predict the future. If our predictions turn out to be accurate we can use these validated frameworks to reveal the secret history of humanity. How does power work Professor Jiang proposes that power is alchemy and allows those in power to transform lead into gold. We are taught in science class that alchemy is a pseudo-science. But in fact we have achieved alchemy with the concept of money. Further Reading: If you enjoy this lecture"
YouTube Link 2025-08-21T04:19Z 1.2M followers, 796.4K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed The Western world is facing unprecedented levels of immigration inflation and economic malaise. Professor Jiang argues that these are symptoms. The real disease is the selfishness and hubris of the Baby Boomers who are the most powerful demographic in the West. They want to maintain their pension their free healthcare and their property values -- even if that means burning the world down. References: [--]. Rat Utopia experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink [--]. Elite Overproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction"
YouTube Link 2025-08-08T14:20Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge In this talk Professor Jiang offers his geo-political predictions for the next twenty years. He first analyzes the major eschatological traditions (Zoroastrian Judaic Christian Zionist Islamic Orthodox and Catholic) to estimate their convergence points. This allows him to imagine a framework for predicting geo-politics. His major predictions: [--]. The United States will lose a ground war against Iran. [--]. NATOs defense of Odessa will trigger political revolutions and upheaval throughout Europe. [--]. Israel will destroy the Dome of the Rock"
YouTube Link 2025-08-01T17:12Z 1.2M followers, 227.1K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch Why did Putin invade Ukraine What is his endgame How did he come from nowhere to become the most powerful man in Russia In this talk Professor Jiang offers a hypothesis and three predictions. He believes that there is a secret nexus of power within Russia that sees Putin as the Second Coming of Stalin who will unite the Orthodox world and restore the Byzantine empire. From this hypothesis we can make three predictions: 1.) Odessa will be a cataclysmic battle between NATO and Russia. 2.) China and Russia will have a falling out. 3.) Russia will"
YouTube Link 2025-07-18T14:55Z 1.2M followers, 324.8K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Christian Zionism dominates American Middle East policy. He introduces the universal law of game theory which helps reveal how the world works. He also discusses how Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah. Please support Professor Jiang's work by buying him a cup of coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/PredictiveHistory References: [--]. This is a MUST READ paper if you want to understand how and why Mohammad became the Jewish Messiah: The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in [---] CE Compared with"
YouTube Link 2025-07-11T16:12Z 1.2M followers, 302.3K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan In this talk Professor Jiang explains how and why Isaac Newton founded Christian Zionism which is driving the conflict in the Middle East today. If you want to better understand this topic here are some suggestions for further reading: [--]. Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16878 [--]. The Scofield Bible: https://www.bethelbaptistlondon.com/Scofield%20Continuous.pdf [--]. Christian Zionism wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism [--]. Dispensationalism"
YouTube Link 2025-06-28T22:01Z 1.2M followers, 366.7K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling What motivates Trump Netanyahu and Khamenei In this talk Professor Jiang explains that all three have a messianic calling"
YouTube Link 2025-06-25T12:00Z 1.2M followers, 433.6K engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins Let's Game Theory Last night the Americans bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. The US-Iran War has begun. How will this war play out In this video Professor Jiang uses game theory to examine the motivations interests and strategies of the three main players: Iran Israel and the United States. He argues that according to game theory the United States will commit to a ground invasion of Iran"
YouTube Link 2025-06-22T16:55Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming In this video Professor Jiang offers his perspective on the imminent US-Iran War. He points out Iran has many advantages but there are three unknowns that would alter the trajectory of the war. Will the US and Israel be able to assassinate Iran's supreme leader What will Putin do How will China respond"
YouTube Link 2025-06-18T13:22Z 1.2M followers, 596.3K engagements
"Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang In this video Professor Jiang introduces himself and answers the following three questions: [--]. How did this "Civilization" course get started and where is it going [--]. What is the Predictive History project [--]. What are Professor Jiang's long-term professional ambitions Viewers are invited to ask questions in the comments section. Professor Jiang will answer to the best of his ability"
YouTube Link 2025-06-13T05:00Z 1.2M followers, 171.8K engagements
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