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

In this historical clip, Sir Niall Ferguson unpacks the collapse of the two-state solution, arguing that Palestinian leadership squandered opportunities like Oslo, and reveals why European and Australian endorsements of statehood are futile post-October 7th. | John Anderson AC