Niall Ferguson's Time Machine
Niall Ferguson, John H. Cochrane, Richard Haass, H.R. McMaster, Philip ZelikowNiall Ferguson's Time Machine applies historical perspective to contemporary problems in economics and politics, because the further back you look, the further ahead you can see.
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Cold War II and the Rise of Anti-History
In front of a live audience, Aaron and I discussed the perilous moment we find ourselves in and how it all relates to history. What is the status of the Iran war? What is influencing President Donald Trump’s policymaking? How do we defeat a...
Trump's problem is that the Iran war timeline keeps getting extended
An interview on CBS on May 11, 2026.
The Iran Stalemate
“In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will,” the economist Rüdiger Dornbusch famously observed, “and then they happen faster than you thought they could.”
He had financial crises in mind. In history, and especiall...
In Conversation with Eyck Freymann on "Defending Taiwan: A Strategy To Prevent War With China"
A conversation hosted by the Hoover Applied History Working Group on April 22, 2026
From the War on Iran to the Crisis of the American Republic
In conversation with UATX undergraduates Emerson Lau, Faith Brown, and Merrick Meardon
This discussion was recorded on April 26, 2026 at UATX in Austin.
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Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. Author of 16 books, including The Ascent of Money, Civilization, and Doom. Columnist with the Free Press. Founder of Greenmantle. Co-founder of the University of Austin.
Economist at the Hoover Institution
H. R. McMaster is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and distinguished visiting fellow at Arizona State University. He is author of the bestselling books Dereliction of Duty, Battlegrounds, and At War With Ourselves.
Professor, Virginia
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