Niall Ferguson: The Vibe Shift Goes Global

Elon Musk (right) watches the launch of a SpaceX test rocket with President-elect Donald Trump on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell via Getty Images)
At home, Yale Law School and DEI committees are out. Abroad, strength and escalation are in.
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I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea, and the novels of Walter Scott—so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and even geopolitics you have to understand culture, which is sometimes—often—upstream of both. And to understand culture you have to understand, well, vibes.
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