“has done more to impose western norms of law, order and governance around the world.”
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Niall Ferguson
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, an…
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2026· 5 entries
“This has been great fun, but . . . well, you know . . .”
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“I very much regret the publication of these emails. I also regret having written them.”
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“My disagreements with Keynes”
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“Wokeism has gone from being a fringe fashion to be the dominant ideology of the universities.”
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2024).
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Was knighted by King Charles III for services to literature
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2023· 1 entry
“I think it is clear that Israel can no longer co-exist with Hamas in control of Gaza. If anybody doubted that, then surely those doubts were dispelled on October the 7th with the most hideous scenes of violence against Jews since the Holocaust”
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2021· 4 entries
Ahead of the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, Ferguson argued that the Labour Party administration under Tony Blair had made a mistake in believing devolution would stem Scottish nationalism but instead enabled the Sco
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“far-left of the Democratic Party”
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Became a joint-founder of the new University of Austin
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Joined Bari Weiss, the Shakespeare scholar Pano Kanelos and the entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale to found the University of Austin
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2020· 3 entries
And 2021", and said that the problem with the Democratic claim that he is a threat to democracy is that for many ordinary voters it sounds overdone and is not as compelling an argument as it was in the past because voter
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Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2020 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 6,864 times.
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Ferguson predicted that the EU was destined to become "moribund" and was at risk of collapse in the near future and that the single currency had only benefited Northern Europe and Germany in particular while causing econ
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2019· 2 entries
Wrote an op-ed in The New York Times arguing that the China–United States trade war was the beginning of a Second Cold War between the United States and China, and that despite the risks of the showdown the introducti
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Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2019 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 7,481 times.
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2018· 3 entries
Ferguson became naturalised as a United States citizen
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Ferguson argued that a Clinton presidency would have been more disruptive to the United States, and that Clinton would have been "immediately" impeached as Trump supporters would have likely believed that the election wa
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At Stanford, emails were released to the public and university administrators which documented Ferguson's attempts to discredit a progressive activist student at Stanford University who had been critical of Ferguson's ch
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2017· 2 entries
Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,596 times.
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Ferguson opined that the West had insufficiently heeded the rise of militant Islam and its global consequences in the same way it failed to predict that the rise of Vladimir Lenin would lead to the further spread of comm
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2016· 1 entry
Ferguson left Harvard to become a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he had been an adjunct fellow since 2005
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2015· 1 entry
Published the first volume in a two-part biography titled Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist from Penguin Press
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2014· 1 entry
“s novel Waverley) that Scotland after the Jacobite rebellion remained a land divided by warring clans and religious factions, and that the Union helped to quell some of the conflicts. During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Ferguson supported Scotland remaining within the United Kingdom, citing potential economic consequences of Scottish independence but argued that the opposition campaign needed to focus on Scotland”
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Ludwig Erhard Prize for Publications in Economics (2013).
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Ferguson, naming Dean Baker, Josh Barro, Brad DeLong, Matthew O'Brien, Noah Smith, Matthew Yglesias, and Justin Wolfers, attacked "Krugman and his acolytes" in a three-part essay explaining his dislike of Krugman
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Published “Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,618 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Described the Eurozone as a "disaster waiting to happen"
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Jonathan Portes, the director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said that subsequent events had shown Ferguson to be wrong: "As we all know, since then both the US and UK have had deficits runnin
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2011· 4 entries
“love being provoked by me! Honestly, it makes them feel so much better about their lives to think that I”
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His film company Chimerica Media released its first feature-length documentary, Kissinger, which won the New York Film Festival's prize for Best Documentary
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Ferguson predicted that Grexit (the notion of Greece leaving the euro currency) was unlikely to happen but that Britain would leave the European Union (EU) in the near future as it would be easier for Britain to leave th
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Civilization: The West and the Rest examines what Ferguson calls the most "interesting question" of our day: "Why, beginning around 1500, did a few small polities on the western end of the Eurasian landmass come to domin
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2009· 1 entry
That they allowed the rump of al-Qaeda to morph into Isis
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2008· 2 entries
Presidential campaign and supported the Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign
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The Ascent of Money examines the history of money, credit, and banking
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2007· 2 entries
To become a contributing editor to the Financial Times
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Ferguson was appointed as an investment management consultant by GLG Partners, to advise on geopolitical risk as well as current structural issues in economic behaviour relating to investment decisions
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2006· 2 entries
While the International Herald Tribune called it "one of the most intriguing attempts by an historian to explain man's inhumanity to man"
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Ferguson argued that a combination of economic volatility, decaying empires, psychopathic dictators, racially/ethnically motivated and institutionalised violence resulted in the wars and genocides of what he calls "Histo
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2004· 1 entry
Was one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world
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2003· 3 entries
As 'a fully paid-up member of the neo-imperialist gang' and he is on record as being not necessarily opposed to future Western incursions around the world
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Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,355 times.
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Former American secretary of state Henry Kissinger provided Ferguson with access to his White House diaries, letters, and archives for what Ferguson calls a "warts-and-all biography" of Kissinger
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2002· 1 entry
Ferguson became the John Herzog Professor in Financial History at New York University Stern School of Business, and in 2004 he became the Laurence A
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2000· 2 entries
Was named a professor of political and financial history
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Ferguson was a founding director of Boxmind, an Oxford-based educational technology company
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1998· 1 entry
Ferguson published The Pity of War: Explaining World War One, which with the help of research assistants he was able to write in just five months
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1995· 1 entry
Published “A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 11,869 times.
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1989· 2 entries
Ferguson worked as a research fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge
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Studied at University of Oxford, Doctor of Philosophy (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
When she was his editor at The Sunday Times
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1985· 2 entries
Studied at Magdalen College (1985).
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Graduated with a first-class honours degree in history and was awarded an MA from Oxford
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-04-18.
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1938· 1 entry
To serving in the United States Army as a "free man" in World War II, to studying at Harvard
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1914· 5 entries
And Britain would have remained an empire as well as the world's dominant financial power
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And that it would have been for the best if Britain had chosen to opt out of war in 1914)
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Then Germany would have taken over the French colonies in Asia and Africa, which would have definitely affected the balance of power all over the world, not just in Europe
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A war largely forced on the Germans by reckless and irresponsible British diplomacy
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(Ferguson claims that most Europeans were saddened by the coming of war)
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1848· 1 entry
“s Prophets: 1798–1848 and The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World”
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