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 ".

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Long live the University of Austin!

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?

Will donate to the success of this university based on its its principles and educational excellence. May there be others that follow in your footsteps.

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.

Wow...! I feel like I just witnessed a modern version of King Arthur's first speech to his noble knights. AUTX is indeed academias new Camelot. I wish you all well, students and teachers alike. There is hardship ahead; but I am certain you will prevail.

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

This is one of the most uplifting and inspiring speeches I've seen in ages. Bravo.

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