Replay 2026 / talk 32

Reinventing Education

Niall Ferguson and Balaji · 37:06

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Niall Ferguson is a historian, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and a co-founder of the University of Austin. He joins Balaji Srinivasan for a fireside chat on reinventing education, the origins of woke, and whether the future belongs to AI empires or network states.
Website: https://www.niallferguson.com
OUTLINE
1:27 - We're trying to reinvent education
2:32 - I don't think you can fix an institution like Harvard or Yale or Princeton
5:34 - The upstream cause of a lot of this disruption is the internet
11:05 - We all live on campus now
19:26 - The surprising

Chapters (10)

0:00 · <Untitled Chapter 1>1:27 · We're trying to reinvent education2:32 · I don't think you can fix an institution like Harvard or Yale or Princeton5:34 · The upstream cause of a lot of this disruption is the internet11:05 · We all live on campus now19:26 · The surprising thing was how readily Silicon Valley folded26:21 · The United States and China are the AI empires28:51 · Anti-tech is the anti-capitalism of this century34:17 · From Christendom to the West to the internet36:52 · The United States is the network state
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