{"id":135900,"date":"2020-12-17T15:05:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T23:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=135900"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:23:52","slug":"niall-ferguson-the-john-yoo-line-and-the-paradox-of-influence-12-17-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=135900","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Gelman: Niall Ferguson, the John Yoo line, and the paradox of influence (12-17-20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/vbz8y7-andrew-gelman-blogs-on-niall-ferguson-the-john-yoo-line-and-the-paradox-of-.html\">Video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Andrew Gelman Blogs On Niall Ferguson, the John Yoo line, and the paradox of influence (12-17-20)\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v9d2rj\/#?secret=gyjUgTwuVt\" data-secret=\"gyjUgTwuVt\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Baked Alaska arrested, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yVwmK1wZQHc<br \/>\n02:00 Kiwi Farms, gossip site for e-celebs, https:\/\/kiwifarms.net\/threads\/biting-the-hand-that-feeds.80828\/<br \/>\n05:00 Mad at the Internet (December 12th, 2020), https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yVwmK1wZQHc<br \/>\n19:30 Why Jews Should Oppose Censorship &#038; 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the last great essayist, https:\/\/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu\/2010\/08\/10\/the_last_great\/, https:\/\/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu\/2013\/09\/15\/the-it-gets-me-so-angry-i-cant-deal-with-it-threshold\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#038; Support Free Speech Despite Rising Anti-Semitism : David Calton, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_1DZi3VMFvE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=135900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,42900,43037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-andrew-gelman","category-niall-ferguson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154744,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135900\/revisions\/154744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}