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Historian Niall Ferguson says government bureaucracy is to blame for inadequate preparation and slow U.S. COVID-19 response.
COVID-19 has been a generation-defining event for the entire world, but especially here in the United States where more than half a million people have been killed by the coronavirus. Many people are unsure as to who is to blame for this disastrous lack of preparedness. Some believe the slow response is the fault of public health agencies, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
One historian says that we can learn a lot by putting the pandemic in the more broad historical context of other crises humanity has endured.
The Federalist, as he welcomes
Niall Ferguson, Ph.D. Dr. Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of a number of titles including
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.
In this conversation, Dr. Ferguson and Ben discuss what past pandemics can tell us about the possible long-term impacts of COVID-19, how the Coronavirus became a catalyst for institutional mistrust, and solutions for addressing big tech censorship.
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Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic and financial history and British and American imperialism.[3] He is known for his positive views concerning the British Empire.[4] He once ironically called himself a fully paid-up member of the neo-imperialist gang following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[5]
Ferguson has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television[6] and a columnist for
Newsweek. He began writing a twice-a-month column for Bloomberg Opinion in June 2020.[7]
Ferguson has written and presented numerous television documentary series, including
The Ascent of Money, which won an International Emmy award for Best Documentary in 2009.[8] In 2004, he was named as one of