Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His Latest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, has just been published by Penguin Press.
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London’s Last Waltz
With Europe on the brink, the U.K. faces its own crises. MORE
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The European Farce
Will the continent act to avert an economic cataclysm? MORE
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African Game Change
A continent primed for economic takeoff. MORE
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Henry Kissinger Comes Home
Kissinger returns to Harvard—and America turns a corner. MORE
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It’s The Weather, Stupid
How else to explain the delirium of the Obama boosters? MORE
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How Terror Saved Sarko
A brutal attack turns a French election. MORE
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China's Great Leap Backward
Beijing purges one of its own—the Cultural Revolution isn’t over. MORE
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David Cameron Comes To America
He wants intervention in Syria and Somalia. Will he get his way? MORE
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Iran's Energy Blackmail
In the West’s high-stakes nuclear game with Tehran, Ahmadinejad may hold the stronger hand. MORE
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The Pessimistic Billionaire
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made a fortune as an investor.... MORE
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Israel’s Case for War With Iran
There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran. And all of them are bad. MORE
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The Inequality Dodge
The world’s bottom billion is booming. But growth abroad may increase the income gap at home? MORE
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Dim-Witted Technocrats
We need a wonk in the White House. Too bad the ‘experts’ are so often politically clueless. MORE
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America's Great Economic Divide
GOP candidates denounce talk of inequality as 'class warfare.' MORE
