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Sep 2023
58m 26s

#675 - Niall Ferguson - The Shocking Les...

Chris Williamson
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Niall Ferguson is a historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution & Stanford University and an author. We often hear that history tends to repeat itself. But if you're a professional historian, just how accurate is that statement? What are the big lessons that we keep missing? And how doomed is our future if we don’t learn from the past? Expect to learn ... Show More
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