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Published · transcript-backedNiall Ferguson: belief
28 Jul 2021 Conversations with Tyler Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History
“I learned that the populism of the left might get rewarded much more than the populism of the right in Latin America because, despite pretty bad excess mortality, Mexico’s going to recover quite rapidly on the coattails of the United States.”
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…But you can’t help but learn, and often you learn more when your motivation is not to learn, right? I learned that the populism of the left might get rewarded much more than the populism of the right in Latin America because, despite pretty bad excess mortality, Mexico’s going to recover quite rapidly on the coattails of the United States. Whereas Brazil is going to continue having a torrid time, for which Bolsonaro will be roundly blamed. I was impressed actually by how okay things seemed in Mexico City, not that it’s representative of the wider country, but I’d expected it to be a more downhearted place than I encountered. Last question: other than finishing the second volume of your Kissinger biography, what else do you have planned for the future in terms of work?…
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