JOURNALISM
Why Would British Universities Want To Be Like Harvard?
Why any UK institution would want to follow Harvard down the path to ridicule is beyond my comprehension. Perhaps a sociologist will one day be able to explain this folly.
Germany, Rearm!
There might be something scarier than German power. That’s German weakness in this dangerous moment for Europe—and the free world.
“I will probably be the first British historian in history to say this, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity,” writes Niall Ferguson for The Free Press.
The Return of Anti-History
Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.
Pano Kanelos with Niall Ferguson: A Revolution Begins in Austin, Texas
Three years ago, the University of Austin was announced in these pages. Yesterday, the school welcomed the class of 2028. This is what the president told them.
Niall Ferguson & Jacob Howland: What the Freshman Class Needs to Read
It is no small part of a liberal education to show students the broad range of meaningful lives they might aspire to lead.
The ‘Barbenheimer’ Election
While Kamala Harris runs a campaign of unsurpassed vacuousness, on the other screen we have the dark, fissile energy of Donald Trump.
Why the U.S. Military Needs to Imitate Ukraine’s Drone Force
The shift to unmanned warfare is unstoppable. That is the lesson we have learned from Ukraine. For the United States, however, the Replicator Initiative and hellscape plan are just a start. What we need now is to build the Unmanned Systems of America.
The alternative could be a catastrophic failure of deterrence on the watch of the next President.
Welcome to Pandemonium
What the hell just happened to the market? This wasn’t the reaction to an underwhelming U.S. jobs report. This is something bigger.
A Shot at the President—And the Turn of History
Assassinations have often changed the course of a country. Would that have happened if the shooter had slightly better aim?