Replay 2026 / talk 32
Niall Ferguson and Balaji · 37:06
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