Niall Ferguson | What History Can Teach Us
John talks to world-renowned Stanford University Historian Niall Ferguson about the history, standing and trajectory of Western Civilisation, the evils of totalitarianism, the Western academy, social media and more.
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Centre for European Studies, Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History.
He is the author of fifteen books, most recently The Square and the Tower. His previous book, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money.
#History #Marxism #Communism #Fascism
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00:00 Introduction
1:00 Why do you care about history?
5:39 Communism and Fascism: Bedfellows
15:41 The Myth of Utopian Equality
20:50 The Existential Threats to the West
28:28 Why is there pessimism in the West?
32:44 Technological Revolutions
39:00 Censorship, Social Media and Politics
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