Will we see that dichotomy operate for years or indeed decades to come as a new historical framework it's possible but one thing that's very clear is that Europe has a different vision of its future. I'm more interested at least in the short run in how those divisions within the western world get resolved because not clear to me who wins in the United States. There's going to be a collision there watch this space it's already beginning and I do not know because I really can't predict what will turn out.
Niall Ferguson is the preeminent historian of the ideas that define our time. He has challenged how we think about money, power, civilisation and empires. Now he wants to reimagine history itself. Networks, he explains, are the key to history. The greatest innovators have been ‘superhubs’ of connections. The most powerful states, empires and companies have been those with the most densely networked structures. And the most transformative ideas – from the printing presses that launched the Reformation to the Freemasonry that inspired the American Revolution – have gone viral precisely because of the networks within which they spread. Our host for this conversation is historian, author and broadcaster, Rana Mitter. The audio of this live Intelligence Squared event was recorded in London in 2017.
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