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10 March 2023

Ep. 154: Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict and Woke Students

Bilal Hafeez

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is the author of sixteen books. This includes the international bestseller, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. His most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In addition to his academic work, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. In this podcast we discuss:

The proper way to do historical analysis
The correct historic parallels to today’s geo-politics
The start of Cold War 2
The new conflict on AI and quantum
How US policy has shifted on China
Can there be no Cold War 2?
Will China attack Taiwan?
Can Europe become a superpower?
The new Trans-Pacific alliances
The role of India
New Middle-East conflicts coming soon
Geological risks
What’s wrong with US universities
Books recommended by Niall: War And Peace (Tolstoy), The Struggle For Mastery In Europe (A.J.P. Taylor), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)

You can follow Niall here and here.

Read the full transcript here.

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(The commentary contained in the above article does not constitute an offer or a solicitation, or a recommendation to implement or liquidate an investment or to carry out any other transaction. It should not be used as a basis for any investment decision or other decision. Any investment decision should be based on appropriate professional advice specific to your needs.)

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