Niall Ferguson: 9/11 Did Not Doom the American Empire
Niall Ferguson: 9/11 Did Not Doom the American EmpireI predicted its decline 25 years ago. That was that question on the minds of many U.S. citizens 25 years ago, in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Surprisingly, some neoconservatives within the George W.
- ▪Niall Ferguson: 9/11 Did Not Doom the American EmpireI predicted its decline 25 years ago.
- ▪That was that question on the minds of many U.S. citizens 25 years ago, in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
- ▪Surprisingly, some neoconservatives within the George W.
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| Publication time | Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:05:20 GMT |
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Niall Ferguson: 9/11 Did Not Doom the American EmpireI predicted its decline 25 years ago. Today, the U.S. has serious problems, but our rivals have even bigger ones.By Niall Ferguson09.10.26 — InternationalNiall Ferguson is a Hoover Institution fellow, senior faculty member at Harvard, the author of 16 books, and a columnist at The Free Press.FOLLOW COLUMN “My prophetic vision of decline and fall 25 years ago clearly has not been fulfilled,” Niall Ferguson writes. (Illustration by The Free Press)--:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narration5READ IN APPREAD IN APPIs America an empire? That was that question on the minds of many U.S. citizens 25 years ago, in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
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