![]() ![]() There are more of them than we care to know. What we have to fear, he submits, are large-scale disasters. Science suggests that our species is also eventually doomed, although Ferguson rightly dismisses modern millenarians. ![]() A Poorly Managed Zooįor the individual, death is certain. I then served on the Board of Overseers of the Central Bank of Iceland, and I must confess that I did not believe him. Indeed, at a luncheon in Reykjavik given by the Icelandic bank Kaupthing on I heard Ferguson explain why a new economic depression, in some ways similar to that of 1929, might be on its way. Time and again Ferguson has reminded us that the unexpected and unpleasant may happen. It is on quite a current preoccupation, the politics of catastrophe. Ferguson has been a prolific writer, with his latest book being released just a month ago, Doom. After the death of Sir Roger Scruton, I see at least four public intellectuals in this sense steeped in the conservative-liberal political tradition: Two Americans, Judge Richard Posner and economist Thomas Sowell, the English biologist Matt Ridley and the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson, born respectively in 1930, 1939, 19. Past examples include Voltaire, Bastiat, Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes, and the modern Left can of course rely on Paul Krugman. ![]() Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is one of the most interesting thinkers of our day.Ī public intellectual is somebody who is best-known for an ability to transmit ideas effectively to the general public. ![]()
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