The Great Degeneration

Speaker: 
Niall Ferguson
Wed, 06/19/2013 - 6:30pm

EVENT DETAILS

Slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behavior — what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions are degenerating and that to slow the degeneration of the West’s once dominant civilization will take heroic leadership and radical reform.

SPEAKER BIOS

Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University and the author of many books, including The Great Degeneration.

Special '21' Club Breakfast & Talk - A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

Speaker: 
Aaron L. Friedberg
Mon, 11/28/2011 - 8:00am

Event details

Join us at New York’s landmark ‘21’ Club for this singular program, which includes a breakfast and lecture for $65 (members $55). Book signing with author to follow.

Coin: half dollar, Sesquicentenneal, 1776-1926

Object name 
Coin: half dollar, Sesquicentenneal, 1776-1926
Medium 
metal
Dimensions 
Overall: 1 x 2 in. ( 2.5 x 5.1 cm )
Object Number 
1926.86
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Coin: half dollar, Daniel Boone bicentennial, 1934

Object name 
Coin: half dollar, Daniel Boone bicentennial, 1934
Medium 
metal
Dimensions 
Overall: 1 x 2 in. ( 2.5 x 5.1 cm )
Object Number 
1934.69a
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Coin: half dollar, California's Diamond Jubilee, 1925

Object name 
Coin: half dollar, California's Diamond Jubilee, 1925
Medium 
metal
Dimensions 
Overall: 1 x 2 in. ( 2.5 x 5.1 cm )
Object Number 
1925.152a
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.