JOURNALISM
“World Asleep At Wheel” As Extremism Spikes, Says Top Historian Niall Ferguson
The world is beginning to wake up to simmering anti-Semitism and rising Islamic extremism after the events of October 7, 2023, and all humanity - not just Jewish people - must be alert to the threat, one of the globe's most respected historians has warned.
My Journey from a Jerusalem of Ghosts to the Living Jerusalem
To make proper sense of the bloody events of the past 12 months in the Middle East, I had to go to Vilnius. That may strike you as bizarre, as Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania and roughly 1,600 miles from Tel Aviv. But Vilnius was once “the Jerusalem of the North”—that’s what Napoleon called it when he passed through in 1812.
Israel’s Iron Prime Minister
At home, the left sees him as cynical, conniving and corrupt; while the right sees him as tired, weak and unambitious. Abroad, he is almost universally loathed and distrusted. And yet no one can deny his Machiavellian mastery of the dirty game of politics, domestic and international. Modern history has produced only two figures who fit this description. The first is Germany’s Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The second is Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. For Bibi – his nickname and the title of his recent autobiography – read Bibismarck.
Why Would British Universities Want To Be Like Harvard?
Why any UK institution would want to follow Harvard down the path to ridicule is beyond my comprehension. Perhaps a sociologist will one day be able to explain this folly.
Germany, Rearm!
There might be something scarier than German power. That’s German weakness in this dangerous moment for Europe—and the free world.
“I will probably be the first British historian in history to say this, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity,” writes Niall Ferguson for The Free Press.
The Return of Anti-History
Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.
Pano Kanelos with Niall Ferguson: A Revolution Begins in Austin, Texas
Three years ago, the University of Austin was announced in these pages. Yesterday, the school welcomed the class of 2028. This is what the president told them.
Niall Ferguson & Jacob Howland: What the Freshman Class Needs to Read
It is no small part of a liberal education to show students the broad range of meaningful lives they might aspire to lead.
The ‘Barbenheimer’ Election
While Kamala Harris runs a campaign of unsurpassed vacuousness, on the other screen we have the dark, fissile energy of Donald Trump.