Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
By Niall Ferguson
Page I bailed on: 140
Verdict: There was a time when Niall Ferguson was worth bothering with. I thought The Pity of War was really good. But latterly he’s just become a right-wing hack and propagandist. I don’t care for his politics, but leaving that aside, what’s worse is the fact that he’s just churning these books out now on schedule while seeming to have totally lost the ability to write. Doom was a COVID book and it’s nothing but a slapdash and glib collection of bits and pieces thrown at the reader only to let us know how widely Ferguson has read. Or browsed. Or had some research assistant browse. I wasn’t buying any of it. It just comes off as non-stop name-dropping and a cheap display of superficial learning in search of a coherent argument.
Alex Good 
Oh dear. Not good.
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I was surprised at how bad this was. Some books I don’t finish because I’m just not feeling them, but this was just a sloppy mess. Might have been a decent magazine article (*might* have been) but at book length it’s full of chum.
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