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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
Vladimir Putin and the Pandemic of Doom
Doom was a book that I was planning to write before the pandemic struck as a history of the future based in large measure on science fiction. And so I decided I would liven up my intake by getting off history for a bit and reading science fiction. Because history is great at telling you about the perennial problems of power. Putin is always interesting on history. He's become something of historian recently with his essays and lectures. We're both are certain kinds of human beings that can have a much deeper apolitical conversation.
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