Niall Ferguson

Essential reading from @huwsteenis on the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the lessons of Paul Volcker and Continental Illinois. The big difference between now and 1984 is that by that time Volcker had won the fight against inflation.

ICYMI, here's a great podcast from @alanwolan with highlights from the Stanford Academic Freedom conference back in November. Featuring @JohnHCochrane @sapinker @DrJBhattacharya @DouglasKMurray @GadSaad @glukianoff @jordanbpeterson @epkaufm @tylercowen ...

ICYMI: a good read on the stomach-churning menu of doom by @JoelAchenbach

After all the hyperventilation this time last year, when we launched @uaustinorg, it's good to read this pretty balanced and accurate account by @tebartl of what we are building and why: [link] @bariweiss @JTLonsdale

Excellent piece by @authorzoellick. There is an urgent need to step up the economic pressure on Putin and this is a move that would also help Ukraine:

"A highly entertaining and readable new book which recounts a litany of cultural clashes, wild west-style assassinations and dashed hopes about the post-communist era." Delighted to see the success of my friend @LanceRogoff's "Muppets in Moscow,"

This is another excellent essay by ⁦@TomMcTague⁩ though the headline isn’t quite right. He’s saying the UK’s economic and political problems go deeper than its relationship with the EU. True. But Brexit clearly made matters worse.

A moving memoir by Joshua Katz of a forgotten young scholar who was one of my most brilliant Cambridge students, but who could not survive the death of his father:

I learned a great deal from this brilliant essay.

Excellent essay on the latest Taiwan Strait crisis and the "coming war" by @HalBrands and Michael Beckley:

Great piece from @Ayaan on @uaustinorg and the higher-education crisis that inspired it:

I am late to this excellent essay by @JonHaidt. His diagnosis isn't so novel (social media turned us into Babel after the destruction of the tower, all very @lessin) but Haidt ends with some constructive proposals for reform: