Roger Partridge: The Historian Who Forgot His History

Economic historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Niall Ferguson declares that Donald Trump “won Davos, hands down.”

Writing in The Free Press, Ferguson’s argument runs as follows. European leaders genuinely feared Trump might use military force to annex Greenland. They invoked international law and the rules-based order. Then Trump arrived, delivered his usual improvisational performance, and called the whole thing off. No new tariffs. No military action.

Roger Partridge: No, America Is Not Experiencing Fascism. Yes, You Should Still Worry

A response to Niall Ferguson.

Writing after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Hoover Institution’s Sir Niall Ferguson offers comforting reassurance. Warnings of America’s democratic collapse are overwrought. The United States, according to Ferguson, remains “a very long way from Italy in 1927 or Germany in 1938.”

What Ferguson is thinking of is not just the fulminations of Trump’s progressive critics. Even conservative Andrew Sullivan wrote this summer in The Weekly Dish: “I think this is how a republic dies.”

Niall Ferguson: Woke Totalitarianism

Signal Productions interviewed Niall Ferguson in early 2021 on Wokeness, history and where left-wing totalitarianism comes from.