Author: Niall Ferguson

“Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire,” speaks about the three deficits faced by America in expanding its reach to the rest of the world. These are: the economic-deficit; the man-power deficit; and the attention-deficit. The first refers to the inability of America to expand its economic imprint…

Western civilization is a social construct. It is not there writ large; as hidden underneath any civilization is a multitude of cultures, sub-cultures; and even a Bohemian way of life, that is anathema to what civilization is all about: order, discipline, functionality, and resilience, that can be passed down from…