Niall Ferguson

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson: Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the WestA blow for the good guys in Cold War II. After TACO, now BDCO: Bibi Doesn’t Chicken Out. Early Friday morning, Israel launched a historic wave of attacks against Iran—the latest phase of the Israel-Iran war that effectively began on October 7, 2023. Israel’s Operation Rising Lion included both air strikes and a wave of Mossad-run assassinations across Iran that effectively decapitated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

2 weeks ago | niallferguson.substack.com | Niall Ferguson

That scraping sound you hear is Rachel Reeves moving the deckchairs around on the Titanic. On Wednesday the chancellor announced the reinstatement of winter fuel payments, which she had axed for most pensioners last year. She intends to claw back the money from better-off pensioners through higher tax bills and a higher means test for future payments. How she will pay the additional cost of £700 million will not be revealed until the autumn budget.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Niall Ferguson

There’s realpolitik. And then there’s reality TV politik. There’s foreign policy realism, of the kind associated with Henry Kissinger. And then there’s Donald Trump’s twist: real estate-ism. Anyone trying to assess the foreign policy of this White House needs to appreciate these distinctions.

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Foreign Policy? Reality TV Politik Making peace is harder than buying skyscrapers. The president is learning this the painful way in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. There’s realpolitik. And then there’s reality TV politik. There’s foreign policy realism, of the kind associated with Henry Kissinger. And then there’s Donald Trump’s twist: real estate-ism. Anyone trying to assess the foreign policy of this White House needs to appreciate these distinctions.

1 month ago | niallferguson.substack.com | Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is the celebrated historian, commentator and biographer whose many books include “The Ascent of Money,” “Kissinger: The Idealist,” “Civilization: The West and the Rest” and “The Square and the Tower.” A senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, Ferguson recently sat down with Noema Editor-in-Chief Nathan Gardels to discuss the Trump agenda, the conflict with China, polarization in America and his own conversion...