Experts
Niall Ferguson
Professor of History, Harvard University
A conversation with the Harvard University historian. Read More
Those with historical understanding of past scenarios are likely to be better at visualizing what's to come. After all, at the heart of the historian's enterprise is the imagination Read More
There are six killer applications that made the West dominant over the past 500 years. But is that age now over? Read More
The country sees its relationship with the U.S. marriage on the rocks and "is actively looking, if not for another partner, then certainly for a divorce from this somewhat unreliable and spendthrift American spouse." Read More
If the U.S. can use its political and technological advances to grow its way out of this crisis, then the future could be rosy. The other option is much grimmer. Read More
An empire in denial. Read More
A lesson from an investment banker. Read More
If you forced his hand, probably Stalin. Read More
Glorify peace, not war. Read More
The American empire is waning, ethnic hatred is growing and economic stability is crumbling. Read More
Nuclear non-proliferation is today's single most important issue. Read More
Greed and fear are high on the list. Read More
Historian Niall Ferguson on worshiping Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Issac Newton. Read More
Too many arguments are simplistic, Ferguson says. Read More
Finding understanding. Read More
Its a combination of both, says Ferguson Read More
Documentary makers in the United States, particularly, like to represent World War II as a kind of morality play. Read More
Niall Ferguson believes that if we destroy human civilization, we certainly destroy history. Read More
All of history is the history of empires. Read More
There ought to be... Read More
About Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson is a Scottish-born historian, political commentator, and public intellectual. He is also the Lawrence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard. Ferguson graduated from Magdalen College and studied for two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Ferguson taught at Oxford University and New York University.
A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics—he came out in favor of the Iraq War in 2003—Ferguson is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and publishes regularly elsewhere in the British and American press. In 2004, Time magazine named him one of the world's hundred most influential people. Ferguson is the bestselling author of the popular histories The Pity of War: Explaining World War One, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and The War of the World. Ferguson splits his time between the United Kingdom and the United States.