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Category Archives: Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson & the Performance of History
Niall Ferguson was born in Glasgow in 1964 to a father who taught medicine and a mother who taught physics, into a Scottish Presbyterian household whose atmosphere shaped him more than he often acknowledges. The household valued argument, moral seriousness, … Continue reading
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How does Niall Ferguson pull off his pundit shtick while protesting I’m really a historian?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory says credentials are shields, not constraints. Niall Ferguson pulls off the pundit shtick while insisting he is really a historian because the historian label gives him alliance immunity. It reframes partisan or speculative claims as learned … Continue reading
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Niall Ferguson once seemed like a serious scholar
In the 2000s, Ferguson became a pundit and this has freed him up to say interesting things because it is easier to be interesting when you don’t optimize for truth. ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would frame Ferguson’s shift not as … Continue reading
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Andrew Gelman: Niall Ferguson, the John Yoo line, and the paradox of influence (12-17-20)
Video. 00:00 Baked Alaska arrested, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwmK1wZQHc 02:00 Kiwi Farms, gossip site for e-celebs, https://kiwifarms.net/threads/biting-the-hand-that-feeds.80828/ 05:00 Mad at the Internet (December 12th, 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwmK1wZQHc 19:30 Why Jews Should Oppose Censorship & Support Free Speech Despite Rising Anti-Semitism : David Calton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1DZi3VMFvE … Continue reading
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