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