Uncommon Knowledge Podcast Episodes featuring Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson’s The Square and the Tower

Uncommon Knowledge - January 25, 2018 00:28 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Recorded 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 Kissinger the Idealist

Uncommon Knowledge - October 08, 2015 03:54 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Recorded 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...