• "In addition to material needs, human beings want to be recognized for their basic human dignity... a lot of our dignity comes from the work we do." - Francis Fukuyama [00:00:41]

• "The end of history was not my phrase... it was the phrase of the German philosopher Hegel who understood history with a capital H... as an evolutionary process." -…

"the Liberty Loan program was basically the genesis moment for the mightiest biggest baddest financial market on the planet The US Treasury market" - Robin Wigglesworth [00:00:00]

"it might be that Americans do not understand or know little about bonds, but we will tell them" - William McAdoo (quoted by Robin Wigglesworth)…

• "The idea that Western powers simply sat down with a map, drew arbitrary lines, and single-handedly created the modern Middle East is a persistent myth that completely ignores the agency of local leaders, empires, and indigenous peoples." - Simon Sebag Montefiore [00:08:15]

• "You cannot understand the current posture of Iran or Russia without…

• "The idea is: okay, what do you think history is? Well, there's different ways of thinking about history... but a very powerful brand of thinking about history, indelibly associated with the name of Hegel... is that history is, if you like, the working through of a problem, and namely it's about the question of freedom and how it works its way out into human institutions." - Adam Tooze…

• "By that definition, the notion that Taiwan stole the US semiconductor industry is completely wrong—completely 100% wrong—because it is actually the outcome of a collective decision-making and collective benefits that created this ecosystem between the US and Taiwan after 40 to 45 years of efforts." - Dr. Roy Lee [00:06:11]

• "Until today, TSMC's…

"Putin felt that Russia faced an existential threat he had to deal with that threat and the United States and the Europeans were doing nothing to negotiate a way to avoid war..." - John Mearsheimer [00:00:00]

"...if you get into trouble and you dial 911 there's nobody at the other end." - John Mearsheimer…

• "Capitalism isn't here an economic system of inequality but a social form of power and domination... capitalism is the domination of the present by the past." - Barnaby Raine [00:05:13]

• "What might it mean to be a good heir? What does it mean to inherit those old ideas in different conditions?" - Barnaby Raine…

• "The Hundred Years' War is a shaking out of what these realms are going to be." - Dan Jones [00:00:10]

• "Edward the Third found to bind together the new nobility, the new generation of nobles who were sort of his his friends, his allies... was foreign war." - Dan Jones…

"This is a battle of annihilation if we fail to grasp it as such in 30 years time we will face the communist enemy again" - Adolf Hitler [00:03:23]

"Attack is everything again and again heavy weapons fire powder iron bombs and grenades we are throwing everything we have at the Russians i predict that in four to 5 weeks time our flag will be hoisted on…

"it turns out that the book [Red Star Over China] really is a fantastic show piece where the communists tell their story exactly the way they want it to be totally unchallenged..." - Frank Dikötter [00:03:21]

"it is Stalin who sets the parameters it is not Chairman Mao." - Frank Dikötter…

"How can India navigate and accelerate its rise in this environment that is the single question... how can India leverage its partnerships... to accelerate its own capabilities at home." - Dhruva Jaishankar [00:02:48]

"The fact is for most political entities in history... they had to think strategically because it was a matter of existential…

"the west still believes that what it stands for as universal values remain always superior to any other set of values and that anybody else who wants to be really civilized and progressive must copy the west" - Professor Wang GungWu [00:01:35]

"It always a mystery to me how Western Europe or North Atlantic failed to gauge the power of Islam…

"To understand what made me and my colleagues become the people we did become, we've got to understand the history because we went through a harrowing period that tempered us—that either broke us or tempered us." - Lee Kuan Yew [00:02:10]

"They are like radioactive dust. How do you get rid of it? You got to vacuum the whole place out and with it…

"Russia and China are eternal neighbors, they're not eternal friends. They have been their worst enemies over the years." - Sarah Paine [00:00:18]

"I can picture one ending to the Ukraine war where China gains a lot of territory in return for putting the screws on Russia to end things in the west." - Sarah Paine…

"What America has and which no other country has ever had to the same extent is it has soft power... it's selling modernity and freedom and if you work hard and if you graft you can be like Americans and you can live the American dream." - James Holland [00:00:00]

"History doesn't repeat itself because of course it can't because that was then and…