Interviews
Niall Ferguson on Argentina and the Paradox of Modernity
Niall Ferguson discusses with Anya Leonard, Founder and Director of Classical Wisdom, on why you might want to be in Argentina if the lights go out...
Inflation Could Repeat 1960s, When the Fed Lost Control
Top economic historian Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins CNBC at the Ambrosetti forum to discuss the outlook for U.S. inflation and geopolitics.
Niall Ferguson Explains Disaster | GZERO World
Stanford historian Niall Ferguson talks about the geopolitics of disaster.
Why We Study History
Niall discusses the difference between English and Scottish pessimism, what James Bond and Doctor Who have in common, how religion fosters doomsday scenarios, which side of the Glorious Revolution he would have been on, why historians seem to have an excessive occupation with leadership, why American bands could never quite get punk music right, Tocqueville’s insights on liberalism, what he learned about populism on a trip to Latin America, and the importance of intellectual succession and institutions.
The New Language of Politics | Centre for Policy Studies
How should the politicians speak to their voters in the most effective way? What issues matter the most to the British public?
Doom: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson | Manhattan Institute
As a deadly pandemic and civil unrest swept across the world last year, “unprecedented” became the word of the hour. While 2020 was an uncommon year, the tendency to think that our time has no historical analogue is a common error—one that can have serious consequences if it causes us to ignore the lessons of the past.
Why Nobody Talks About The Economy Anymore
Niall joins Fox Nation's ‘Tucker Carlson Today.’
How We Can Build Resilience | Thought Economics
Niall Ferguson about how we should think about disasters & catastrophe and how society can (and should) be better prepared.
The Politics of Catastrophe
Niall joins us the Intelligence Squared stage to explain the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doom, Disaster, and Democracy
We’re getting worse, not better, at handling disasters like the pandemic. This is the argument Niall lays out in his new book “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe”, which sets 2020 into wider context and asks why many countries’ initial responses to coronavirus were too slow. Niall speaks with Walter Isaacson about how we got here and what the next big disaster might be.