Niall Ferguson’s office in the London School of Economics is situated in the lofty-sounding ‘Ideas’ department. I meet the eminent historian there one lunchtime, to find him hungrily attending to an ...

To use the language of today's computerized, synchronized world, these were the six killer applications — the killer apps — that allowed a minority of mankind originating on the western edge of ...

Niall Ferguson has been called an unapologetic defender of western imperialism—a claim they say is reinforced by his latest book, ”Civilization,” subtitled “the West and the Rest.” ...

"The Birth of Classical Europe" is an old-fashioned attempt to turn raw historical facts into a grand narrative ...

Historian Niall Ferguson claims that the United States could be headed to the same ruin of every previous advanced civilization if it doesn't fix its debt problem. Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ferguson’s “Doom” places the current pandemic in the context of other catastrophes and reaches the conclusion that all disasters are ...