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Virtual History
Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780330351324
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Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780330351324
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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: Niall Ferguson, guest. 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.
Speculates what may have happened if nine major events did not occur, asking such questions as, "What if there had been no American Revoultion?" and "What if John F. Kennedy had lived?"
“And I wrote a lot about that in The Pity Of War and in the book Virtual History because I think it's important for people to understand”— Niall Ferguson
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.
“i i also did an essay in virtual history about this and it's always amused me that from around that time i began to be called a conservative historian”— guest
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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