Niall Ferguson

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  • Jun 18, 2026
    In January 1918, President Woodrow Wilson published his 14 Points, which were designed not merely to end World War I but also to serve as a blueprint for an enduring global peace....
  • Jun 13, 2026
    When Europeans first arrived in the Americas, indigenous populations had almost no resistance to the many pathogens that had sailed with them. The results were catastrophic. Half a...
  • Jun 3, 2026
    The age of artificial intelligence requires the kind of strategic doctrine and arms control that stabilized the Cold War. Right now, we have neither.
  • May 16, 2026
    Wars always take much less time to start than you think they will, and last much longer than you thought they could.
  • May 14, 2026
    The Oxford English Dictionary defines détente as “the easing of strained relations, esp. in a political situation.” But in the late 1970s it became something of a...
  • Apr 24, 2026
    The United States and Israel tried regime change; it didn’t work. Or rather, they got regime change—Iran became an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–led military...
  • Jan 26, 2026
    There is a rapidly forming narrative in the European and liberal media that the Europeans “won Davos”: primarily by getting Trump to “de-escalate” his demand...
  • Jan 14, 2026
    We are watching a heroic attempt at counterrevolution against a regime that has no compunction about massacring its own citizens. Sadly, history offers few examples of such attempts...
  • Jan 10, 2026
    In the earliest hours of January 3, a group of US Delta Force operators broke into the heavily fortified presidential compound of Nicolás Maduro, the dictator who has ruled...