Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

[@lukepiotr]

Niall Ferguson is great. He has a great talent for explaining complicated matters and history. Awesome interview!!

[@tobystewart4403]

Ten comments for the best academic writer of his generation. Interesting.

[@TheWarsuron]

and the gang stalking?

[@SertoriusMagnus]

He didn´t see the yellow vests coming though...

[@petervandenengel1208]

The religious war from the catholic south with the north was in the 15th century, not in the16th as he claims. So was the (micro) hunt after witches. Nithing to do with Luther. Funny, a historian mixing up causes effects and ages :-)

[@SertoriusMagnus]

That's absolutely false numpty! The wars of religion happened in France in the 16th century, so the war against the League of Smalkald in the Holy Roman Empire, the rebellion of The Netherlands against Spain, the breakup of England with Rome and the ascent of Calvinists over Queen Elisabeth after the Queen Mary's period of prosecution against Protestants, the regime of Jean Calvin in Geneva, etc., etc., all of it in the 16th century, as from the start Luther stuck his 95 theses at the All Saints' Church of Wittenberg's door in 1517!!!

[@originalandrewmark]

@@SertoriusMagnus So there! excellent retort our friend!

[@dswellhauser]

What a difference nine months makes....the EU appears to be falling apart.

[@cbarclay99]

He's not quite the economic genius he thinks he is. Interesting comment on US vs China tech competition, though he fails to mention that it is Trump who is shaking the US out of its complacency about China.

[@zeddeka]

What a difference another year makes, when the EU isn't falling apart at all and claims that it was look like hysterical nonsense