People on the outside always think the people on the inside have more power than they actually do. So of course, bush uses this a, you know, nine 11, as an excuse to invade arak and roosevelt was trying to unite the american public and combat the american firsters so he could support churchill and get America into the war. Well, pearl harbor did it. So he capitalized on what happenedon on purpose. In that sense. I think a lot of that tat goes on in history, i'm sure you're right. And one of the benefits off being a british historian is that we have a whole lot of past, a history
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises, and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with one of the world’s most renowned historians, Niall Ferguson, who explains why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are making us worse, not better, at handling disasters.