#192: Niall Ferguson - Historian's Thoughts On Covid-19, Political Divisions & The Next Disaster

Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Niall's latest book is called 'Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe'. Topics Discussed: - Niall's reaction to Dominic Cummings latest press conference - The UK's response to Covid-19 - Which countries handled Covid-19 the best - Niall's thoughts on the current political divisions - Are we more divided than ever? - Is social media dividing us? - Has academia become skewed? - What is the next catastrophe that we will face? Links: https://www.youtube.com/c/FreedomPact​​ (video interviews) https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter​​ (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise) https://instagram.com/freedompact​​ http://www.niallferguson.com