Niall Ferguson

The virtual currency is scarce, sovereign and a great place for the rich to store their wealth.  

Let’s hope it doesn’t take another Cuban Missile Crisis to bring the U.S. and China to detente.

To know what the Chinese are really up to, read the futuristic novels of Liu Cixin.

Social unrest helped doom Lyndon Johnson's presidency. It may end up saving Trump's.

How much are social mores going to change as a result of the pandemic?

These days we are all a bit like those Japanese fishermen, cowering beneath a giant wave. The wave in question is the pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the deadly disease...

The terms ‘capitalism’ and ‘socialism’ had their origins in the British Industrial Revolution. As the Chicago economist Thorstein Veblen argued,...

The term “cognitive dissonance” was coined by the American social psychologist Leon Festinger. In his seminal 1957 book on the subject, “A Theory of...