Niall Ferguson's Time Machine applies historical perspective to contemporary problems in economics and politics, because the further back you look, the further ahead you can see.
Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. Author of 16 books, including The Ascent of Money, Civilization, and Doom. Columnist with the Free Press. Founder of Greenmantle. Co-founder of the University of Austin.
Decades ago, I escaped the Islamic world and came to the West. Many don't know how good the West is, or how fragile. I fight for the restoration of what made the West great.
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"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - Orwell