Niall Ferguson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Niall Ferguson

Two weeks ago, I warned that the geopolitics of Cold War II seemed to be pitting Halford J. Mackinder’s Eurasian “Heartland” against Nicholas J. Spykman’s “Rimland.” I worried that the Rimland was showing signs of division. But maybe it’s the Heartland that’s cracking up. 1/8

Niall Ferguson

Dazzling... You have by now read a great deal of both hype and doom-mongering on the subject [of AI]. But Suleyman's is the book you cannot afford not to read.

Niall Ferguson

Americans are Social Darwinists. China is the Panopticon. There is no other way to make sense of the hugely divergent responses of the U.S. and the PRC to the pandemic. Hat-tips to Herbert Spencer and Jeremy Bentham: https://t.co/Awr17NMKY3

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My interview with Sir Paul Tucker about his ambitious and illuminating new book, "Global Discord." https://t.co/7jJkfRgmmH

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Warm congratulations to my friend @DaveMcCormickPA on the publication today of his compelling and timely book "Superpower in Peril." https://t.co/nCJnSSQ4Be https://t.co/ZrUUtpUeRn

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I highly recommend Nick Lambert's books: "Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War" and "The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War."

Niall Ferguson

I highly recommend Nick Lambert's books: "Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War" and "The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War."

Niall Ferguson

“I once wanted to burn ‘The Satanic Verses.’ Now I weep for Salman Rushdie,” writes ⁦⁦@Ayaan⁩ https://t.co/xx2RbYwX77

Niall Ferguson

"The ends that historians identify (if only to finish their books) are thus somewhat arbitrary, like punctuation marks inserted by a clueless editor into Molly Bloom’s stream of consciousness in James Joyce’s 'Ulysses.' There is no end of history; only the history of ends."

Niall Ferguson

"Discussion of 'Huck Finn,' reading the forbidden word aloud from the autobiographical "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," and ... making arguments on all sides of contentious issues such as the equality of the sexes" led to what the Nazis called "Lehrverbot." https://t.co/naM6JXExGY