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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...
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 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...
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