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Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

The New York Times

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Biden Can’t Pay His Way Out of Fighting Cold War II

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? was the title of cheesy 1970 film that captured the anti-Vietnam Zeitgeist. But suppose they gave a cold war...

19.05.2024 30

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

How to Use and Misuse History in Cold War II With China

“Men learn from history only how to make new mistakes.” That line by the great English historian A.J.P. Taylor once very much depressed me. In...

05.05.2024 20

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

New Cold War with a new axis of evil: Isolationists in the US, GOP must join the fight as dark forces gather

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s great epic, “The Lord of the Rings,” it becomes apparent only gradually that the forces of darkness have united.

29.04.2024 100

New York Post

Niall Ferguson

The Second Cold War Is Escalating Faster Than the First

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s great epic, The Lord of the Rings, it becomes apparent only gradually that the forces of darkness have united. Sauron, with his...

21.04.2024 60

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

From Deepfakes to Arms Races, AI Politics Is Here

Two weeks ago, I asked and attempted to answer six questions about the economic and financial consequences of the artificial intelligence revolution....

07.04.2024 10

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

Resistance Is Futile, But Maybe Not With AI

The novelist Neal Stephenson’s prophetic power never ceases to astonish. The Diamond Age (1995), is set in a technologically highly advanced world,...

24.03.2024 10

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

Global Population Crash Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore

We used to imagine humanity populating the universe. In Isaac Asimov's Foundation (1952), mankind has established a vast multi-planetary empire by the...

10.03.2024 60

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

Kissinger and the True Meaning of Détente

Few words are more closely associated with the late Henry Kissinger than “détente.” The term was first used in diplomacy in the early 1900s, when...

27.02.2024 40

Foreign Affairs

Niall Ferguson

America must take the world’s new Axis of Evil much more seriously — or else

China's approval of supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine and with it almost being 2 years since the beginning of the war, it is only a matter of...

24.02.2024 100

New York Post

Niall Ferguson

If You Think World War III Is Unimaginable, Read This

Are we unable to imagine defeat? You might have thought that, having so recently lost a small war, Americans would have no difficulty picturing the...

11.02.2024 70

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

America’s Longtime Sources of Power Have Have Turned Weak

“What is the power that moves peoples?" asks Tolstoy in the philosophical essay at the end of War and Peace. “How did individuals” — he has in...

14.01.2024 20

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

If You Held On for Dear Life, It's a Merry Cryptomas!

It's Merry Cryptomas, everybody! Bitcoin is up 167% year-to-date. Ethereum is up 91%. If a massive crypto rally was one of your predictions for 2023 a...

17.12.2023 100

Bloomberg

Niall Ferguson

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