Niall Ferguson: Does the West have a future?

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Dec 22, 2025

In December 2025, renowned historian and public intellectual Niall Ferguson was the featured guest at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Voices That Inspire speaker series in Vancouver. Ferguson’s landmark works—including "Civilization," "The Square and the Tower," and "Doom"—have cemented his reputation as a leading voice on the rise and fall of civilizations and the cycles of hubris and renewal that define the human story. In conversation with MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley, Ferguson discussed the West's collapse of self-confidence, and what it will take to overcome it.