• Episode 126: Vejas Liulevicius - Western Civilization in 60 Minutes

  • Oct 25 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Episode 126: Vejas Liulevicius - Western Civilization in 60 Minutes

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  • Vejas Liulevicius is a historian, an author, and a professor whose "Great Courses" lectures include "Turning Points in Modern History" and "War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000."

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    (00:00) Intro

    (01:00) Rome, Greece, and the Enlightenment

    (12:57) Contrasting the Enlightenment to other political philosophies of its time

    (22:07) The American Revolution and the American Experiment

    (30:47) Alexis de Tocqueville and "Democracy in America"

    (34:24) The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Nazism

    (46:41) How Hitler rose and what culturally preceded dictatorship in Germany

    (54:16) The 2024 U.S. Presidential election and our point in history

    (58:20) The Great Courses
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