What Niall Ferguson thinks about Europe

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Scottish-American historian; Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a columnist at The Free Press. Author of The Ascent of Money (2008), Civilization (2011) and Doom (2021). Writes the Time Machine newsletter on history and current affairs.

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1. 19 Oct 2026

   Our readingEuropean welfare models are heading toward insolvency.

   Their wordsWith a few exceptions, the various European models are in the early phase of a nosedive into insolvency.

   ↗Why Europe Is Burningniallferguson.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece