#117 — Networks, Power, and Chaos

Sam Harris speaks with Niall Ferguson about his new book "The
Square and the Tower." They discuss his career as a writer,
networks and hierarchies, how history gets written, the
similarity between the 16th century and the 21st, the role of
social media in the 2016 Presidential election, the influence of
advertising on the public sphere, Trump, the Russian
investigation, Islamic extremism, counterfactuals, what would
have happened if Clinton had won the presidency, immigration in
Europe, conspiracy theories, capitalism, globalization,
communism, wealth inequality, universal basic income, Henry
Kissinger, the prospect of a US war with China, cyberwar, and
other topics. 


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