Niall Ferguson: How Civilizations Collapse

💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 Niall Ferguson is a Scottish-American historian who serves as the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. The author of 16 books, Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic history, financial history and the history of the British Empire and American imperialism. #history #politics #interview We are proud partners with GiveSendGo - a world-leading crowdfunding platform that believes in free speech. Go to givesendgo.com and raise money for anything important to you. SPONSORED BY: EasyDNS - domain name registrar provider and web host. Use special code: TRIGGERED for 50% off when you visit https://easydns.com/triggered/ Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Intro 00:43 Are We in the Last Stages of Civilisation? 08:45 How Do Civilisations Fall? 13:03 The State of the American Project 23:04 Sponsor Message: GiveSendGo 24:40 Why We Judge the Past 27:38 Why Are Young People So Nihilistic? 39:59 Is Totalitarianism Cyclical in History? 43:03 Sponsor Message: EasyDNS 44:05 The Failure of Our Historical Education 48:57 Do Men Think About the Roman Empire? 54:10 Why Are Greek Myths So Compelling? 57:34 Niall’s Thoughts on Trump 1:02:47 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?