124 | Niall Ferguson: The Politics and History of Catastrophe
Niall Ferguson, author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the show to discuss why some societies fall apart while others rise in the face of doom, how a Cold War between the U.S. and China could lead to catastrophe, and analyze the pathologies facing modern America through the lenses of imperial decline, finance, institutional decline, and social fragmentation. Special Niall Ferguson Bookshop Link: https://bookshop.org/lists/niall-ferguson-bookshop Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack, now released on Thursdays: https://therealignment.substack.com/
May 13, 2021
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Niall Ferguson, author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the show to discuss why some societies fall apart while others rise in the face of doom, how a Cold War between the U.S. and China could lead to catastrophe, and analyze the pathologies facing modern America through the lenses of imperial decline, finance, institutional decline, and social fragmentation.
Special Niall Ferguson Bookshop Link: https://bookshop.org/lists/niall-ferguson-bookshop
Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack, now released on Thursdays: https://therealignment.substack.com/
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