Niall Ferguson

What makes American politics abnormal is that partisanship has become akin to sectarianism

The founders of sociology — I think especially of Max Weber — would have been fascinated by Israeli society

Just over ninety years ago, the Oxford Union carried the motion ‘That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country’

The campaign of lawfare against him has already started to backfire

In an age when the democratic world has grown accustomed to phony leadership, it gives you a jolt to encounter the real thing