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232 - Niall Ferguson: Trump v. Harris | Israel v. Hamas | Russia v. Ukraine

232 - Niall Ferguson: Trump v. Harris | Israel v. Hamas | Russia v. Ukraine

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Sir Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty
fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
at Harvard University, where he served for twelve years as the
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. In this episode, Robinson
and Niall discuss three of the biggest conflicts currently
gripping the news—the election in the United States and the two
wars between Israel and Hamas on the one hand, and Russia and
Ukraine on the other. Undergirding the entire discussion is the
question of whether the United States is an empire, whether it is
failing, and what the world needs America to be. Niall's most
recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Penguin, 2021).

Niall's Website: https://www.niallferguson.com

Doom: https://a.co/d/eWAx65C

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

00:44 Niall's Take as a Scottish Historian

05:20 Is the United States an Empire?

12:49 What Does the World Need the United States to Be?

19:47 Is Trump or Harris Better for the Russia-Ukraine War?

26:35 Is Trump Too Dangerous to Have the Nuclear Launch Codes?

29:54 How Terrible Was Biden's Withdrawal from Afghanistan?

34:22 Is the United States on the Precipice of Self-Destruction?

41:08 Will Donald Trump Actually Help the Suffering Poor of
America?

46:23 Will Niall Ferguson Vote For Donald Trump?

50:31 The Dangers of American Politics

54:55 The Right Versus the Left on the Wars in Ukraine and Israel

1:00:07 How Has the Media Fed the Israel-Hamas War in Palestine?

1:06:35 Is Benjamin Netanyahu a Satanic Figure?

1:11:19 Is Israel Committing a new Holocaust—Genocide—in
Palestine?

1:17:21 Trump, Harris, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine: Do
They Even Matter?

Robinson's Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University.