Listen to Sir Niall Ferguson about how academia can be perverted so that it incubates and legitimises extremist political groups. Discussing academia from the decades preceding WWII, debating Marxists during the Cold War, and the recent developments in the United States. — In conversation with Sir Noel Malcom. Sir Niall Ferguson is a British-American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Senior Fellow at Harvard. Previously, he held positions and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The author of many popular books such as 'Empire', 'Doom', and 'Civilisation'. He is a co-founder of the University of Austin. — Follow Sir Niall Ferguson — Website: https://www.niallferguson.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/nfergus Substack: https://niallferguson.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web — Follow the Pharos Foundation — Website: https://pharos.foundation/ Twitter: https://x.com/Pharosofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pharos_foundation/ #academia #history #historicalbooks #freespeech #ww2 #totalitarianism
