How did Britain come to rule the world? asks Niall Ferguson in Empire. What would today's world be like now if it hadn't? Could such an organisation – run by, according to Winston Churchill, 'the ...

A late-Soviet debate night doesn’t mean we’re in late-Soviet America. By Ross Douthat Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ferguson’s “Doom” places the current pandemic in ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ferguson’s “Doom” places the current pandemic in the context of other catastrophes and reaches the conclusion that all disasters are ...