Niall Ferguson: My Journey From a Jerusalem of Ghosts to the Living Jerusalem
This piece is by WWSG exclusive thought leader, Niall Ferguson. To make proper sense of the bloody events of the past 12 months in the…
Thought Leader: Niall Ferguson
By David Frum (original source The Atlantic)
On the evening of June 21, 1941, American Communists went to bed subject to one party line. At the sun set, Britain was fighting an imperialist war against Germany, about which the United States must remain neutral.
American Communists awoke on June 22, 1941, to discover the party line abruptly changed. Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union. Now the war was a struggle between democracy and fascism, one the United States must immediately join.
The personalities on Fox News executed a similarly abrupt and total pivot on March 13, 2020. The Washington Post produced a stark before/after anthology of the same hosts saying precisely opposite things a few days apart.
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Niall Ferguson: My Journey From a Jerusalem of Ghosts to the Living Jerusalem
This piece is by WWSG exclusive thought leader, Niall Ferguson. To make proper sense of the bloody events of the past 12 months in the…
Thought Leader: Niall Ferguson
Peter Goodman: How Cannabis and Opium Poppies Became National Security Issues
This piece is by WWSG exclusive thought leader, Peter Goodman. Never mind that everyone calls him Groovy, or that the company he oversees — Bright…
Thought Leader: Peter Goodman
Ian Bremmer and Amina Mohammed on the promise and peril of AI
In a GZERO Global Stage discussion at the 79th UN General Assembly, Ian Bremmer and Amina Mohammed emphasized the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to…
Thought Leader: Ian Bremmer