Niall Ferguson: After the Treason of the Intellectuals

From the great Tomas Sowell " the best thing about having a Harvard degree was 'never again having to be impressed by someone with a degree from Harvard ".

85% of students believed a professor should be reported for wrong think, oh how Mao!

My wife and I recently fell into conversation with a young British female graduate taking a year out as a lifeguard in New Zealand. 'Are you looking forward to returning to the UK?' I asked. ' Well I have a good job lined up, but not really. You dare no longer say what you think. And if you have children they will just be indoctrinated with propaganda in schools', was her unprompted response. I do think the tide is turning.

As Dr Jorden Peterson repeats. You only need a few stand against the establishment change will come. It may take ten years' but it will come. Thank you for creating hope.

This is painful to hear. He’s right we need new institutions.

Maybe Niall doesn’t see it yet..he’s the pendulum. This is the beginning of the swing. Thank you Niall.

I was subjected to an administrative inquisition for teaching the exceptionalism of the Founders and the genius of our republic. I was told I was GUILTY of microagressions because I had offended students. My response? That is my job!

"We are rapidly approaching an era where people vs government becomes a worldwide phenomenon." ~ John McAfee

I have never seen Ferguson so passionate. We need MORE Niall Ferguson in our world today!

I am so excited and humbled that my son was accepted to this incredible university. I can hardly believe it....

"When intellectuals are unable to find enough contemporary grievances to suit their vision or agenda, they can mine the past for harm inflicted by some on others." ~Thomas Sowell

is not just universities, i think this trend is prevelent throughout the whole schooling system.

Donors who previously donated to many of the Ivy League Universities are now invited to take a close look at this University as a place that will respect their values and hard earned money.

My proudest moment at uni was during my turn away from left wing economics. I had gone looking for evidence to support a contention and found the opposite. So I wrote it up, basically ended up being a defence of free market capitalism and limited state intervention. Feedback from my tutor was ‘I completely disagree with your perspective, but nevertheless this is an excellent piece of work, here are some pieces by people who would also disagree and some evidence against your conclusion’. We then spent the rest of the course strongly and respectfully disagreeing and I learned a ton from him. I wonder if that can even happen any more. And if it can’t, how can people hope to learn?

The "swing to the activist left" in academia was not accidental. It was forced by actively denying tenure or even applications of Center-right aspiring academics to any open positions. It was by actively drafting academic positions definitions that exclude other points of view. It was by inventing whole new academic fields and departments that by definition are associated with the political activist "left", which is more regressive, racist, sexist, and totalitarian than any center right Republicans or even what used to be garden variety Democrat.

I am a retired Associate Professor in Australia, aged 82. How I wish I could be there at Austin. Gloria Steinem always said the world would be changed by an army of grey haired women. I continue to fight for the Liberty and truth Niall Ferguson so passionately espouses. And as the 1000 mourners at Alex Navalny’s funeral chanted “we are not afraid”.

Universities have become churches instead of learning institutions. We should not ignore this underlying cause of academic politicalization.

I am inspired. I wish I was thirty years younger; I'd be signing up.

Not many people get to make a real difference. Exciting times!

I truly admire Dr.Ferguson. Good luck University of Austin!