God Bless Niall Ferguson! (Pretty much) It’s hard to think of anyone I have trashed so consistently and so contemptuously as Niall Ferguson, whom I once grudgingly praised with a thoroughly uncivil leer as a Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball, while also urging readers not to read his then most recent book, whose title will go unmentioned…
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Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers: Why was this book written?
Christopher Clark is no amateur historian. He is a professor of modern history at Cambridge University and author of Iron Kingdom: The rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, among other works. His current bestseller, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914, was acclaimed one of the best books of 2013 by the New…
Hatin’ on Keynes
Niall Ferguson’s “Johnnie was a homo” assault on the economics of John Maynard Keynes, which, as Jonah Goldberg helpfully points out, has been made many times before (so there’s nothing wrong with it, I guess), suggests just how much the neo-con right hates Keynes, hates him for being right. Keynes’ monumental crime was not buggery…
Niall Ferguson, Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball
Last week, I praised Niall Ferguson for having the chops to quote Thelonious Monk in his recent book, Civilization. Well, don’t buy the book. Niall is an arsehole, as Matthew O’Brien explains here. Hey, the Nazis listened to Mozart. Listen to Thelonious, not Ferguson.
Niall Ferguson wrong-foots me
Generally, I’m not a fan of Niall Ferguson, that frenziedly self-promoting neo-imperialist Caledonian, who now hangs out at the American Enterprise Institute, where he spends his time toasting Winston Churchill and telling us Yanks that we’re not man enough to run the world the way the Brits did. But in his latest effusion, Civilization, which…