If you think a version of all this wasn't also playing out at your alma mater in the last six years, you are delusional. @Tyler_A_Harper simply experienced a microcosm of the American academy's decline and fall.
Niall Ferguson
@nfergus
International man of history, Flying Scotsman. Author, @HooverInst senior fellow, @TheFP and @thetimes columnist. Opinions my own.
- A great honor and pleasure to meet President @Claudiashein. She is clearly following a very different political path from @JMilei (whom I visited this time last year). But her challenges are also different and her achievements impressive.En Palacio Nacional, recibí al historiador especialista en economía, Niall Ferguson; conversamos sobre el momento histórico que vive México y la relación con Estados Unidos.
- What is especially infuriating about the Arday fiasco is that it shows the people running @Cambridge_Uni have learned absolutely nothing from the experience of the elite universities in the U.S., not least @Harvard.
- The appearance in the timeline of characters like Leopold Aschenbrenner and Jason Arday only strengthens the case that we are living in a simulation, and Tom Wolfe wrote the software.
- This is a truly brilliant interview that ranges far and wide, an enticing trailer for Sebag's new book "The Cauldron": @tunkuv interviews @simonmontefiore wsj.com/opinion/we-liv… via @WSJopinion
