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Hace 1 día · Niall Ferguson is a glutton for exposure. From January to mid-February 2003 six one-hour television programmes, four lectures to substantial audiences in the University of London’s Senate House, and a large glossy book have been devoted to his theme of ‘empire’ or, as he also puts it, ‘how Britain made the modern world’.
Hace 2 días · Forwarded From Geopolitika en españolEl historiador estadounidense Niall Ferguson señaló sobre Estados Unidos en 2019 que «ya no vivimos en una democracia. Vivimos en una sociedad democrática donde gobierna la emoción, no la mayoría, y los sentimientos importan más que la razón. Cuanto más fuertes sean tus sentimientos, cuanto mejor sepas conducirte a la indignación, más influencia ...
Hace 2 días · May 28, 2024. ∙ Paid. Share. Professor Niall Ferguson hopes to produce “Navy SEALs of the mind” — the next generation of leaders who can reason, debate, build, and restore the American republic to greatness — with his pioneering new university in Austin, Texas ( Link ). Although Ferguson never tutored me at Jesus College, Oxford, I ...
Hace 2 días · The decline of America and Western civilization is being discussed more loudly these days. But is it true or inevitable? Is the U.S. a waning influence, unraveling from within mainly due to extreme divisiveness? Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s most renowned historians, shares his well-informed pe
Hace 5 días · Date accessed: 25 May, 2024. The way we evaluate Western civilization is deeply influenced by our political views. Niall Ferguson is known in leftist circles as a ‘right winger,’ even a ‘super-conservative'. He has always resisted this characterization: ‘I'm just a doctrinaire liberal at heart.
Hace 3 días · Chapter seven consists partly of a riposte of Niall Ferguson’s view that empire generates economic benefits; Lawrence James’s interpretation of British policy in India as the successful application of “reason […] in the form of Western education and the application of science” is also rebutted (p. 218).
Hace 3 días · Even before it began, UK historian Niall Ferguson made a bet with Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker, known for his optimistic predictions. Pinker believed that wars and violence are becoming less prevalent in the modern world. Ferguson, on the contrary, predicted that at least one million people would die in wars by Dec. 31, 2029.
