Niall Ferguson: Does the West have a future?

Описание: In December 2025, renowned historian and public intellectual Niall Ferguson was the featured guest at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Voices That Inspire speaker series in Vancouver. Ferguson explores one of the defining questions of our time: does the West still have a future?
Drawing from his work Civilization: The West and the Rest, Ferguson discusses the institutions and ideas that made Western societies globally dominant — from competition and science to the rule of law, private property, and the work ethic — and examines whether the West is now losing confidence in the very principles that once fueled its success.
The conversation touches on the rise of China, the return of great-power rivalry, the meaning of freedom in a new Cold War, and the cultural and political challenges facing liberal democracies today. A wide-ranging discussion on history, geopolitics, civilization, and the future of the Western world.

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