I'm hearing the _Terminator_ theme tune. Am I nuts? Lol, sort of. My videos are an example of what history students need to encounter, but presumably never will. For the usual reasons no doubt.

It is unfortunate that the whole crux lies at his comments around 1:23:00 regarding what is crucially more important; the gossamer boogeyman of global warming or fomenting a strong and viable representative democracy through fiscal, border, and social responsibility. Now consider which US political party is apt to make those crucially hard and unpalatable policies?

Podcasts? For many of us this is the preferred form of garnering opinions about a spectrum of topics and to do so in a manner that is less intrusive into everyday life's activities. Daily I download podcasts on to MP3 players that are listened to through out the day at my convenience as I accomplish the days work. This way I choose what I listen to versus what is available on radio, television, or the internet streaming services.

Immigration - bipartisan failure - ignoramus. No mention of controlling border access as he prefers to states it is a case of legislative "immigration reform" that is needed. I wonder what the elder Ferguson would say?

Unfortunately, his salient point regarding the rule of law fails if the legal systems acts corruptly, i.e. the New York prosecution of Trump/NDA Daniels trial. Scholars on both sides agree that that trial was a complete breakdown of American legal system and most likely will be overturned. Personally I have always planned to write in Ron DeSantis and I have not been a Trump supporter in 2024.

Excellent point that the Government chose to implement lockdowns, as that was the historical prescribed method to deal with Bio-Terrorism. They obviously went down that path because they KNEW it was a leak from the Chinese lab and KNEW that it could potentially have been manipulated to be ultra contagious (or many other unknown malicious affects of genetic engineering). Fauci and the NIH KNEW this, but had to cover it up....hence all the FOI documents that come back redacted. Please think hard about this....why would the government need to redact info on public health?????

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Dr. Carol Swain is a national treasure! Fantastic person! Should be VP or Secretary of Education for Trump 2024!

A POTUS first year in office is essentially his predecessors, in terms of financial occurrences. I'm a fan of Prof. Ferguson, but he's being disingenuous regarding his claims.

A remarkable person with a very down to earth, intelligent perspective. I love her ideas!

America needs help

Looking forward to voting for you on the national level

Excellent!

Niall Ferguson is a brilliant historian, but not a good lecturer, reading from others more and more and more is not a good lecture. But he is brilliant, so OK.

25:47 got my attention about free and unfree societies: “It appears that one does not need a dictator to have the pathologies of a totalitarian society.”

This all seemed to me at the time to be group think hysteria

Having signed the Great Barrington Agreement led to my department questioning what I was teaching my university students. So someone was watching who signed the agreement.

One tech breakthrough like cheap safe fusion would wipe out any thought of the national debt.

I'd bet the porosity of the border to be the direct result of the anti communism zeal of the 50s and the cuban influx. Wet feet dry feet?

And, of course, we are doing exactly the same thing to the global poor via "Green Energy" initiatives. One begins to see a pattern, with the affluent deliberately harming the poorest, most vulnerable. So, we get to see, quite clearly, for whom we are "saving the planet". On the Supreme Court and Jay's lawsuit, there is no ambiguity here. What the government did was wrong. If the Supreme Court is unable to see this, the Supreme Court has become irrelevant as a means of defending the rights of citizens since freedom of speech is paramount. This was not a case of war or invasion. What the government did killed people and ruined lives and the government did it knowingly. It's that simple.

You're a danger to our country

You just love terrorists

Crap D o u s h b a g s

I would like to hear more about how his political fears affected his presidential choices.

hundred years from now when people look back at what changed in education in America to bring about the freedom of debate we 'now enjoy'................................NIALL FERGUSON WILL BE REMEMBER AS ONE OF THOSE GREAT INFLUENCERS IN THE WORLD!!!

OUTSTANDING MR FERGUSON.................................I HOPE THE AUSTIN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM WILL BE EXPORTED TO UK BEFORE ITS TO LATE!!!

"promosm" 👌

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Nice to be in the same boat different time

Lincoln and grant the greatest

They tried it with America but succeedet with India

Uk always has followed a policy of divide and rule they

US national debt to GDP ratio was 105% at the end of WWII. Due to circumstances of the post war international economy, that had been reversed by the time of the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations. I agree with Niall that the current situation of 124% is both alarming but widely not understood or appreciated. It is a looming and potentially catastroohic problem for the United States.

I think we're all missing the obvious year which is that men leaving the workforce is correlated to a decline in birth rate so fewer fathers with fewer children mean fewer men in the workplace

The body isn't an optional extra; we have embodied and embedded minds. There is no other way to be human.

'Intuition needs tuition.' Ben Shahn

Much of this discussion can be summarised by this quote from Wittgenstein: 'it's practice that gives words their sense.'

Wonderful to from Professor Koganzon

I learned so much wisdom and insight in this fascinating discussion. Thank you.

amusingly, he doesn't even have a PhD. I suspect his Latin must be terrible

Thanks again James Madison Program. No doubt America has been corrupted, we have failed in eternal vigilance. There is a vast expanse of America between Princeton and Stanford I’m surprised no one asked about the value of the Bill of Rights in changing our fortunes vs. previous Republics, specifically in regard to the Second Amendment. I (independent) fear that America is being infected with European, intellectual, aristocratic thinking and ideals. While Mr. Ferguson is a great historian, I would never take his advice on what America/Americans should do. Europeans IMO seem to be better suited to being monarchical subjects than having power vested in the people with a limited government and therefore having to constantly defend those rights/freedoms when elected citizens get power and want to keep it. I will say this if we give up the right to keep and bear arms it’s over for us. Cheers!

Thank you for making him look like one of us . I have always held judiciary in highest esteem. Hope and pray such individuals are still among us .

Thanks to the James Madison Program. I think there is a problem which academics could solve that is the holding fast the definition of liberal and whether folks who claim to be on the left are indeed liberals or as it appears actually leftists, communists, jacobins, and socialists. The American democrats have allowed people exhibiting these natures and ideals to infiltrate their ranks and claim they are democrats but indeed they are not. Plain speaking about what these people actually profess to believe should be how they are identified and called out in the public square.

Somebody, anybody please tell me, what's "Hossein Mousavian" doing in PRINCETON?

As of my viewing, Columbia University is at 214th in the FIRE free-speech assessment... A certain sad state of affairs...

Great show. I had never heard of ISI and am thankful you are spreading the word. Keep going!

Do you count Canada among the fallen democracies?

It’s very odd to define classical liberalism in terms of fear without reference to Hobbes, Rousseau, and especially Locke. In fact, there is no reference even to freedom before almost 14 minutes. So this is a very non-mainstream interpretation of classical liberalism.

'Think To Dare'

Solid principles. This curriculum must be brought to our public schools....