#634: Niall Ferguson, Historian — The Coming Cold War II, Visible and Invisible Geopolitics, Why Even Atheists Should Study Religion, Masters of Paradox, Fatherhood, Fear, and More

Brought to you by  Wealthfront  high-yield savings account, ShipStation  shipping software, and  Athletic Greens  all-in-one nutritional supplement. Niall Ferguson (@nfergus), MA, DPhil, FRSE, 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. He is the author of 16 books, including The Pity of War , The House of Rothschild , Empire , Civilization , and Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist , which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize.He is an award-winning filmmaker, too, having won an International Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money . His 2018 book, The Square and the Tower , was a New York Times bests