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327 - Introduce Yourself with ShaoLan and Historian & Author & TV Presenter Niall Ferguson
Talk Chineasy - Learn Chinese every day with ShaoLan - November 23, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 217 ratingsHistorian and TV presenter Niall Ferguson joins ShaoLan in the London studio for a special edition of Talk Chineasy. Listen in to lose your fear of Chinese and learn some of the most important starting phrases such as addressing a crowd, how to introduce yourself, the way to count to 4 and orde...
Scenario Planning to Prepare for the Future with Peter Schwartz, Mick Costigan, and Niall Ferguson
Blazing Trails - December 29, 2021 09:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 368 ratingsCan we really predict the future? Today’s guests make future-planning their business… but they will also be the first to tell you that the future is far from predictable. Peter Schwartz, Mick Costigan, and Niall Ferguson join the podcast to discuss what they call scenario-planning; the process...
Peter Thiel A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB PODCAST (HOBBES + LOCKE + ROUSSEAU + US CONSTITUTION in ONE SINGLE BOOK) - October 23, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 260 ratingsPeter Thiel A Conversation with Niall Ferguson Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 315 on the Forbes 400 in 2017, with ...
John Anderson Direct: With Niall Ferguson MA, D.Phil, Senior Fellow, Stanford University
John Anderson: Conversations - October 07, 2021 22:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 195 ratingsJohn talks to world-renowned Stanford University Historian Niall Ferguson about global security, the perception of the West, the strength of alliances in the face of communist threats, and what China's rising power means for the geopolitical environment.
SLP235 Niall Ferguson Bitcoin & Monetary Revolution
Stephan Livera Podcast - December 07, 2020 12:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 391 ratingsNiall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He’s also author of 15 books, including The Ascent of Money. Niall and I chat: Bitc...
Niall Ferguson: How viruses (and fake news stories) spread, and how America screwed up its coronavirus response
Decoder with Nilay Patel - April 08, 2020 04:01 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 2.4K ratingsHistorian Niall Ferguson, the author of bestselling books such as The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new PBS series, Networld, which explores the history and science of networks. He discusses why it's important to understand networks, and ...
Giving Thanks With Niall Ferguson
Matters of Policy & Politics - November 26, 2019 09:05 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 351 ratingsWe are replaying this wonderful Thanksgiving podcast with Niall Ferguson. As a prolific columnist and observer of US and world affairs, Niall Ferguson has plenty to be grateful for, beginning with an American president seemingly always in the news. Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at ...
Giving Thanks With Niall Ferguson
Matters of Policy & Politics - November 26, 2019 09:05 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 351 ratingsWe are replaying this wonderful Thanksgiving podcast with Niall Ferguson. As a prolific columnist and observer of US and world affairs, Niall Ferguson has plenty to be grateful for, beginning with an American president seemingly always in the news. Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at ...
Conversations: Featuring Niall Ferguson MA, D.Phil, Senior Fellow, Stanford University III
John Anderson: Conversations - November 15, 2019 00:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 195 ratingsFormer Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Conversations: Featuring Niall Ferguson MA, D.Phil, Senior Fellow, Stanford University (Part III)
John Anderson: Conversations - November 15, 2019 00:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 195 ratingsFormer Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Amanpour: Jim Rutenberg, Jonathan Mahler, Aaron Sorkin, Jeff Daniels and Niall Ferguson
Amanpour - April 04, 2019 18:09 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratingsJim Rutenberg, Media Columnist at the New York Times, and Jonathan Mahler, a Staff Writer at the New York Times, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss media mogul Rupert Murdoch's political influence. Writer Aaron Sorkin and actor Jeff Daniels talk about their new adaptation of "To Kill A Mockingbi...
Applied Perspective: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
Context with Brad Harris - March 07, 2019 09:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 440 ratingsNiall Ferguson is one of the most influential historians of our generation. His professional effort extends well beyond academia to ensure that policy makers and the public better understand how to apply historical lessons to current issues. Niall and I connected to further discuss some of those...
Q&A with Niall Ferguson
Q&A - April 15, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 249 ratingsHoover Institution senior fellow Niall Ferguson discusses his book, [The Square and the Tower], about the power of social networks throughout history and their influence today.
135. Niall Ferguson (historian) – The Ghost of Future Past
Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - February 17, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratingsEvery time he sees a triangle these days, my 10-year-old son points and says “Gasp! the illuminati!” This is a meme he and all his friends absorbed from YouTube. It’s interesting that several centuries after the Illuminati first appeared, as basically a idealistic secret boys’ club, followed b...
Networking with Niall Ferguson and Gillian Tett
Library Talks - January 30, 2018 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 310 ratingsWhat do Mark Zuckerburg and Martin Luther have in common? Historian and political commentator Niall Ferguson explains in his newest book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. Ferguson stopped by The New York Public Library to speak with Gillian Tett, U.S....
Niall Ferguson’s The Square and the Tower
Uncommon Knowledge - January 25, 2018 00:28 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsRecorded on November 9, 2017 With social networks like Facebook and Twitter in abundance, the effects of networks on society in the twenty-first century are inarguable. However, Niall Ferguson, author of The Square and the Tower, argues that networks are not a new phenomenon and have been impact...
Niall Ferguson on The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Network
Channel History Hit - October 18, 2017 05:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsNiall Ferguson @nfergus is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard.cHe has published fourteen books, the latest of which is The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power. The first volume of his biograph...
Niall Ferguson on The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Network
Dan Snow's History Hit - October 18, 2017 05:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsNiall Ferguson @nfergus is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard.cHe has published fourteen books, the latest of which is The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power. The first volume of his biograph...
Niall Ferguson on History's Hidden Networks
Intelligence Squared - October 12, 2017 23:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsHave historians misunderstood everything? Have they missed the single greatest idea that best explains the past? Niall Ferguson is the preeminent historian of the ideas that define our time. He has challenged how we think about money, power, civilisation and empires. Now he wants to reimagine his...
Niall Ferguson On The Six Killer Apps Of Western Civilisation
Intelligence Squared - March 24, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsNiall Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation. In this talk from February 2011, based on his book 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest', he asks how Western civilization came to dominate the rest of the world. His answer is that the West developed six “killer applicatio...
Kissinger 1923-1966: The Idealist with Niall Ferguson
Channel History Hit - January 12, 2017 04:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsNo American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed as the ‘indispensable man,’ he also attracted immense hostility. In this talk, renowned historian, Professor Niall Ferguson revealed an extraordinary panorama of Kissinger the man: from his Jewish upbringing in G...
World Order: Brexit Populism and Kissinger with Niall Ferguson - Conversations with History
Conversations with History (Audio) - December 19, 2016 21:00 - 57 minutesConversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution who is the 2016 Underhill Lecturer at Berkeley. After discussing the importance of Anglo-American Studies and the wave of populism sweeping the West, including Brexit and the Trump phenomena, the convers...
World Order: Brexit Populism and Kissinger with Niall Ferguson - Conversations with History
Conversations with History (Video) - December 19, 2016 21:00 - 57 minutes - VideoConversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution who is the 2016 Underhill Lecturer at Berkeley. After discussing the importance of Anglo-American Studies and the wave of populism sweeping the West, including Brexit and the Trump phenomena, the convers...
World Order: Brexit Populism and Kissinger with Niall Ferguson - Conversations with History
Conversations with History (Audio) - December 19, 2016 21:00 - 57 minutesConversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution who is the 2016 Underhill Lecturer at Berkeley. After discussing the importance of Anglo-American Studies and the wave of populism sweeping the West, including Brexit and the Trump phenomena, the convers...
An Evening with Niall Ferguson
Ideas at the House - May 24, 2016 06:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Scottish-born Harvard University professor, known for his provocative and contrarian views on international history and economic policy, discusses his life and work. Ferguson is a prolific commentator, a contributing editor to the Financial Times, and is the author of 11 books. In 2011, his f...
Niall Ferguson: Henry Kissinger Reappraised, with Andrew Roberts
Intelligence Squared - October 16, 2015 15:04 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsNo American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. To the late Christopher Hitchens he was a war criminal who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. To his admirers he is the greatest strategic thinker America has ever produced, the ‘indispensable man’, whose ...
Niall Ferguson on Kissinger the Idealist
Uncommon Knowledge - October 08, 2015 03:54 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsRecorded on October 7, 2015 - Niall Ferguson discusses the first half of Henry Kissinger's life, beginning with his being a young boy in Germany to becoming an intellectual celebrity at Harvard and finally an adviser to both Nelson Rockefeller and John Kennedy, leading Kissinger to becoming a na...
Niall Ferguson On The Six Killer Apps Of Western Civilisation
Intelligence Squared - February 20, 2014 16:38 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsNiall Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation. In this talk from February 2011, based on his book 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest', he asks how Western civilization came to dominate the rest of the world. His answer is that the West developed six “killer applicat...
Q&A: NIALL FERGUSON, Columnist and Author
Free Forum with Terrence McNally - January 29, 2009 18:17 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsAired 01/27/09 NIALL FERGUSON is Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, an op ed columnist for the LA Times, and the other of several books, the newest is THE...
Q&A: Niall Ferguson, Author
Free Forum with Terrence McNally - September 27, 2007 17:51 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis interview was recorded on Ferguson's recent trip to Los Angeles - before the election and before the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, so neither of these big stories will be mentioned. Ferguson is more conservative than my usual guest. The first two thirds deal with his views of the ...
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