Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, his new book on the decisions made by governments and public health officials around the world during the COVID pandemic. In this wide-ranging discussion, Ferguson describes what governments and leaders got right and got wrong—very wrong—over the 15 months since the coronavirus spread from China.
“Just opening your business, the amount of red tape . . . it puts the Soviet Union to shame. . . . Often times you’re hundreds and hundreds of thousands dollars in debt because of delays that were caused by the city and their processes.”
interview with Condoleezza Ricevia George W. Bush Presidential Center
Monday, April 26, 2021
Hoover Institution fellow Condoleezza Rice shares her perspective about the current state of the southern border and the root causes of the migrant increase.
Few social scientists have done as much to expose the internet's risks and dangers as Canadian political scientist Ronald Deibert. Measured and soft-spoken, he has been fearless and relentless in exposing corporate, criminal, and government efforts to hijack the internet for profit and power.
I think daily, incrementally, insidiously the number of Americans that does not believe official Ministry of Truth communiques grows larger. And the number promulgating them for careerist purposes shrinks.
I have not independently checked, though the answer hardly matters. The fees and portfolios tell the story. Obviously any claim that this ESG portfolio will outperform after fees is ... strained.
interview with Niall Fergusonvia The Ben Domenech Podcast
Monday, May 3, 2021
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses what past pandemics can tell us about the possible long-term impacts of COVID-19, how the Coronavirus became a catalyst for institutional mistrust, as well as solutions for addressing big tech censorship.
Hoover Institution fellow Timothy Garton Ash discusses stopping autocratic tendencies in Hungary and the EU, as well as reversing the backsliding on the rule of law.
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses everything from earthquake zones, to viruses, to world wars, as well as how well our political and social structures have or have not adapted to the certainty of continued crises.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson talks about the American economy, inequality in the education system, and the on-going left leaning bias in the media.
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all.
India’s relative success against the first wave of infections also likely led to it not swiftly preparing enough vaccines for its own population, he said.
With world-famous philosophers, Nobel Prize-winning economists, leading politicians and radical scientists, the Debates and Talks programme for HowTheLightGetsIn May 2021 is here!
