Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books, including Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist. In this conversation, we cover the conflict over Taiwan: why it’s a cold war, when it started, how to avoid allowing it to become a hot war, and how to de-escalate and even win it. Along the way, Ferguson discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of the United States and Western Europe in both

Professor Niall Ferguson shows how the responses of our political class have been an unmitigated disaster for all sides. | For A Traditional Britain

When interest payments on the national debt eclipse defense spending, history shows that great powers struggle to maintain military strength and global influence. As U.S. debt service surpasses defense outlays for the first time since the 1930s, Ferguson's Law offers a stark warning about the fiscal foundations of American national power. Watch a new installment of Unarchived with Hoover Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson: | Hoover Institution