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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Niall Ferguson
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Niall Ferguson
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This book by Niall Ferguson has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-11-08 and the most recent from 2022-11-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“His latest book, Doom, subtitled, The Politics of Catastrophe, was published last year by Penguin and was shortlisted for the Lionel Gerber Prize”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Niall Ferguson: Historian, Hoover Institution senior fellow, author of 16 books (including Kissinger, Civilization, and Doom), and founder of advisory firm Greenmantle. Historian Niall Ferguson argues we've already entered Cold War II with China, with Taiwan as the new Cuba-style flashpoint.
“in the book doom the politics of catastrophe your newest book you describe wars pandemics and the terrible disasters in human history”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Niall Ferguson: Scottish-American historian and author of 16 books on money, power, war, and empire; formerly at Harvard, now at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a co-founder of the University of Austin. Historian Niall Ferguson on launching a free-speech university, the evolution of money and crypto, counterfactual world wars, COVID leadership, and the meaning of life.
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