![]() ![]() But you have some very sharp things to say, particularly about public health officials. Peter Robinson: Reassuring taking the very long view. And so, in a way, "Doom" is a kind of reassuring, comforting, and at times I find even amusing book. And part of what I do is to show that, by historic standards, COVID-19 is not a really massive disaster. I wanted to write the book to put our current or recent disaster into some kind of historical context. ![]() Part of the point of this book is to explore our very strange ambivalent relationship to doom, which fascinates us and often leads us to exaggerate the scale of a disaster. ![]() the US edition depicts a golfer sinking a putt with a wildfire raging behind him. Niall Ferguson: Well, there's a certain irony in there, which I think the dust jacket also makes clear. The author of more than a dozen works of economics, military history, and diplomacy, Professor Ferguson has just published "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe". A fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, Niall Ferguson has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, the Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics, and Harvard. Now that it all may finally be ending, how did it happen? The historian Niall Ferguson in his new book "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe", on "Uncommon Knowledge" now. Peter Robinson: A worldwide plague, the American economy shut down, schools closed, masks, social distancing. ![]()
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