Niall Ferguson 
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SOURCE: The Times
4//14/19
Join my Nato or watch critical thinking die
by Niall Ferguson
A new red army is out to silence debate. We must rise up and resist it.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
4/15/19
Niall Ferguson isn’t upset about free speech. He’s upset about being challenged
by Dawn Foster
Powerful people used to express their views on others unopposed. Now their targets fight back, they find it intolerable.
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SOURCE: news.com.au
11-7-18 (accessed)
Niall Ferguson says Trump is a populist not a fascist
In a wide-ranging talk the historian speculated that Trump will face Kamala Harris in 2020.
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SOURCE: The Harvard Gazette
11-1-18
Niall Ferguson sees trouble ahead
The last financial crisis was just beginning when the historian published “The Ascent of Money.” In a visit to the Kennedy School on Wednesday, he warned that another might be approaching.
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SOURCE: The Boston Globe
10-22-18
Niall Ferguson says the fracas over Elizabeth Warren reveals a deep flaw in liberal politics
by Niall Ferguson
Identity politics is devouring itself.
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SOURCE: Express
6-11-18
‘EU is weakest world power’ Niall Ferguson says
The European Union is so poorly prepared for the challenges of the modern world that it may not exist in 10 years time.
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SOURCE: The Stanford Daily
5-31-18
Leaked emails show Niall Ferguson conspired with College Republicans to conduct opposition research on Stanford student
“I very much regret the publication of these emails. I also regret having written them."
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-28-18 (accessed)
Niall Ferguson says we should be alarmed by the polarization associated with social media
In a fascinating interview he sees dangerous parallels between the birth of the printing press and the establishment off social media.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-15-18
"Multiple Steves and Pauls": A History Panel Sets Off a Diversity Firestorm
Niall Ferguson conference at Stanford is being attacked for featuring 30 white men and not one woman.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
1-23-18
Niall Ferguson predicted 2 years ago Trump would go to Davos
by Niall Ferguson
The reason Obama never went is that, aside from raising campaign funds from them, he had little real use for businessmen. Trump, by contrast, is a businessman.
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SOURCE: CNN
1-23-18 (accessed)
Video of the Week: Is Trump just another U.S. populist?
Niall Ferguson interviewed by Fareed Zakaria.
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SOURCE: NYT
1-11-18
Niall Ferguson says the book that best reflects his politics is Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France.”
He was the subject of this week's NYT book interview.
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SOURCE: The Times (London)
9-24-17
Niall Ferguson’s new book is a warning about the pernicious threat of networks
“This networked world is not going to be a harmonious one. It will be characterised by polarisation and, frankly, by conflict.”
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SOURCE: The Boston Globe
8-21-17
Niall Ferguson chastises Trump’s comments on Cville but says the left’s open to criticism, too
"Trump blew it last week, no question. But as the worm turns against him, let us watch very carefully whom it turns to — or what it turns turn into. If Silicon Valley translates 'There is only one side' into 'Censor anything that the left brands "hate speech,” ' then the worm will become a snake."
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SOURCE: Intelligencesquared.com
7-5-17 (accessed)
Niall Ferguson is coming out with a new book
It’s "The Square and The Tower” and it’s about history’s hidden networks.
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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
4-26-17
Niall Ferguson says the liberal international order has passed its peak
But he doesn’t believe that means we’re headed for more wars.
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SOURCE: The Spectator
12-7-16
Niall Ferguson changes his mind about Brexit (he’s now for it)
by Fraser Nelson
Some rise in his defense, including this author.
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SOURCE: Breitbart
2-21-16
Scottish Ex-Pat Niall Ferguson: Don’t Be An "Angloony," Stay In EU And Defeat The Ottoman Empire
He says to opt out of the EU will hurt trade and security.
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12-5-15
Shame on you, Niall Ferguson
by Paul B. Sturtevant
He elected to throw gasoline on the fires of Islamophobia after the Paris attacks.
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SOURCE: Tablet
10-28-15
The Servile Fanatic: Niall Ferguson’s Grotesque but Telling New Biography of Henry Kissinger
by Todd Gitlin
"It is not a happy forecast of what is to follow that Ferguson sees Kissinger’s critics as grudge-bearing self-seekers."