Archive - Niall Ferguson's Time Machine

What is the Power that Moves Nations? Thoughts on "War and Peace."

Why you really should read the greatest novel ever written. A conversation with Michael Knowles.

10 hrs ago •

Secrets of Statecraft: Time-Knight

A Hoover Institution podcast with Andrew Roberts

Jul 6 •

AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back

ChatGPT and its like have swept through academia, changing how students work, write and think. The bots are here to stay, so we need to reimagine…

Jul 6 •

June 2025

Thoughts on the 12-Day War on Day Seven

An interview with Fraser Nelson at the Times CEO Summit, London, June 19, 2025

Jun 25 •

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What Comes After Trump’s ‘Surgical Strikes’?

As Kissinger often said, every success in foreign policy is just an admission ticket to the next crisis.

Jun 24 •

Israel Has Done Most of the Job. Only Trump Can Finish It.

Only one air force has the power to finish off Iran’s last standing nuclear enrichment site.

Jun 19 •

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General Yoav Gallant

The Cloister and the Starship

The university of the future must revive ancient ways of learning to enable human mastery of artificial intelligence

Jun 17 •

Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the West

A blow for the good guys in Cold War II. Co-authored with Harry Halem and Marcus Solarz Hendriks.

Jun 13 •

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Reviving Britain will require our version of the chainsaw act

Reform in the style of Argentina’s Javier Milei is what is needed to set the UK on the right track — Nigel Farage’s ideas would return us to the 1970s

Jun 7 •

Trump’s Foreign Policy? Reality TV Politik

Making peace is harder than buying skyscrapers. The president is learning this the painful way in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Jun 3 •

May 2025

America Is In A Late Republic Stage Like Rome

History suggests republics don’t last more than 250 years. An interview with Nathan Gardels, recorded on February 10.

May 21 •

Exposing Harvard's Rot

Why UATX is the Anti-Harvard

May 12 •

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