The leading national forum open to all for the impartial discussion of public issues important to the membership, community and nation. Join us as Niall Ferguson offers an explanation of disaster response and strategies to make us better at handling the next catastrophe we will inevitably face. He offers the lesson he says the West urgently needs to learn if we want to handle the next crisis better and avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline. In his new book, Ferguson uses centuries of knowledge to understand the complex pathologies at work that make societies fail in the face of disaster. In the new book Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, popular historian Niall Ferguson explores the reasoning behind this phenomena and offers solutions on how to handle unforeseen circumstances of mass misfortune.įerguson has spent his academic career lecturing on the international, financial, and economic history of British and American imperialism. Unexpected calamities have happened all throughout human history, yet even in the 21st century we are ill-prepared to recover from them. We cannot predict the next earthquake, wildfire, financial crisis, war or pandemic, but we can predict how to handle each situation better. Disasters are inherently inevitable in life.
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