It was waste of time. Actual title of talk has nothing to do with content of speech.

Natsoc right about everything earth is flst wrong god tesla and marconi earth is flat dual mind intellectuals yeah rationalist heretics more evil anti catholics

Same thing has happened in current UK. Academia has been infiltrated by Cultural Marxist activists since Blair was Prime Minister. Now look at the state of our education establishments.

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This is interesting. But was it filmed in a crowded pub? Whats with the loud din of voices in the background? Very distracting

this is, indeed, an eye-opening historical analysis. But I find myself wondering, how many academics joined the rabble in the assaulat against our US Capitol on January 6, 2021?

Why not let the left have their own place, an island, where they can hate each other and leave the rest of us sane people alone ?

“Of 800 professors, 200 were Jewish and were expelled from academia of which 20 were Nobel Prize Laureate. The biggest Brian drain in history of Academia.” Let’s not repeat history. Let’s learn from the mistakes of the past.

„Niall Ferguson about how academia can be perverted so that it incubates and legitimises extremist political groups“ Is he talking about himself and his despicable pro Trump propagand

51:40 the penny drop indeed…

49:10 “I think I’ve become bilingual in Woke” In other words, 1984’s doublespeak

44:11 on the contrary, amid all the shrill speakers and short-attention spans, Joe Rogan’s long-form podcast has attracted a huge following and led the way to a lengthy discussion with the now-new president

Are you Herbert's grandson?

From South Africa - thank you for sharing this lecture

It's sad to see that Ferguson has turned from a respected historian to an activist and Trump/Musk supporter. He compares the German Nazi academics (who all had a chance to read Hitler's book, YT will delete my comment here if I mention the title) to the delusional Hamas supporters of the US student unions. I'm German. Ferguson's comparison serves his activism, but is frighteningly superficial. German academics abetted the Nazi genocide. The US students see Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, they don't pander to genocide. The Nazi GER and Israel/Gaza situations are completely different. A comparison is out of the question IMHO. (I am neither a student nor a Hamas supporter). I hope Ferguson will eventually drop his activism and return to his original field of knowledge.

What I observe in this regard, after a lifetime in the sciences, is a totalitarian wave consisting of people who do not want to grow up and take responsibility for themselves, with an infantile need for an imaginary group essence, to give them a sense of identity since they don't really have one of their own. They seem to expect to be catered to and coddled, cherished and adored, and to have their big feelings managed for them, since they neither understand nor can control themselves.

Ferguson = Trump supporter. Ditto his wife. Yeh, see how that goes…..!

“Trust the Experts”

All as a result of the Darwinism revolution

Floyd is referenced but not the police officer’s name. Two people on the ground. One personified into a group of skin colour and the other personified into the uniform. The common factor was illegal pharmaceuticals. That contention removed the breath of one and employed the knee of the other. Covid has shown how big phama pit people against people. And we see Germany in the 1930 also experimenting with these chemicals. 1940’s created a knee on the neck in a world war. Time to reflect on how history rhymes.

Nazis are fortunately defeated. This evil is (more or less) no more (with exception of German AfD party). Let us talk now, how Marxists and crypto-Communists conquered American and European universities, finances, businesses and media. Too many supporters of vladolf putler among professors, bankers, business men and journalists.

I very much respect Sir Niall, having reading his books & hearing him speak at London School of Economics. He deserves the title. Seeing him speak now at Oxford about odd things happening in America’s 3 top unis is rather worrying. I wish him best wishes in the success of the uni he is founding.

Until the late 1950's most all chemical engineering books were in German.

Almost like the days of Senator McCarthy when anything spoken and written in public media had to be censored for Communist sympathies, beforehand. Known as Reds under the Bed. policy People lost their jobs for being suspected.

This guy is a propogandist. It is important for the Right to always be the victim. That way they can distract from the fact that few real people just don't believe in them.

The US is very lucky to have people like Niall Ferguson immigrate and become citizens.

Western countries are now reaping the harvest of what has been sown in the, once revered, halls of their centres of learning. How very astute of Niall to present the facts of how the universities are overwhelmingly over represented by woke liberal progressive zealots!

“There lies madness.” Oh terrific! let’s go there!

Marxism and Facism are the true face of Athiesm. Morality is subjective. Ethics are the result of extreme rationalism by collective agreement, not individual reasoning. It is the Survival of the fittest. Man is no more than a descendant of Animals. Academics are the quickest to be fooled by this deception with their DEI appointments.

“Liberal” in the US now means illiberal in normal parlance. I am a liberal and so is Ferguson in the sense that we believe in free speech and a market place of ideas. It is sad to see the perversion of the genuine intellectual endeavour and its replacement with dogma.

He has really hit a raw nerve here, judging from the angry leftist outpourings among the comments here.

Niall might have been blowing the dust off his book shelves to re-read Michael Burleigh's books. Which is no bad thing as being a good communicator and possibly applying his own intellect to the Profess-ocracy of pre WW2 Germany needs a wider audience. Unfortunately the actual talk here is not really about academia, the professions and the Nazis and, rather more about "cancellation culture." Worthy but a topic already bashed around in the press. On that note I surprised they did not see the role of media outlets selling advertising clicks that gives the oxygen to this. Will no one ever write a first class thesis on the role of the Fourth Estate, which democracy demands is kept in place, quite right, despite all the wrongs.

Is this purely a function of a liberal takeover or a decline of the republican party into a ultrareligious mullah party. It takes two to tango. Both parties have been highjacked by extremists

What a wonderfull video - well spoken mr. Ferguson!

28:32 "why multiculturalism works" 😂😂😂

14:55 Especially when you add to running being under the influence of various drugs and resisting arrest, among other things...

I have to thank this presentation and discussion for helping me to name some of my recent experiences: "sanctified indifference"... 🤔😉

I BEG OF YOU ALL: the philosopher, historians and academic intellegencia communities: PLEASE REFRAIN from using the word "confused" when referencing the DELIBERATE and WILLFUL moral positions taken by University Admins, Faculty, and Students. While it is true a great many do not posses even the most basic facts on this conflict, their position nevertheless is a MORAL one, not a historical or otherwise factual one, and therefore you demean THEM, their positions they've willfully decided to take, and the meaning of the word itself. These people may be uninformed but they are NOT CONFUSED!!!

The sensational title of this lecture was Ferg’s ‘hook’ to get you to endure his witless whingeings about being so soundly rejected by the Ivy Leaguers, who don’t give a damn about any ‘woke’ causes. They just want the big money and to get rid of obnoxious egotists who are mere annoyances. He’s perpetually bitter about all the ‘unfair’ treatment he’s suffered, and sour over the fact that he had to decamp to the wastes of Texas to found his dream lyceum. (Shades of Trump U…?) The chief difference between the German universities of the Nazi era and the US ones of today is the mass corporatization of them by private and corporate funding. So, instead of aiming his watery venom at the right people, he assigns the problem to a few transient officials and some rebel professors. Of course, the corporates are unassailable, even by a giant gnat such as Ferg. The smothering gobbledygook from Noel Malcolm almost seems a balm in comparison. He certainly tames the firebrand with his muffled, predictably deadening Don-Talk, and successfully concludes the affair with a whimper.

Opening part full of propaganda.

He wanted to talk about "How The Nazis Conquered German Universities" It's 12:20 and he switches to the Palestineans... I then stopped the video and left. If you want to do propaganda in the Levante conflict, Sir Ferguson, please say it in advance. My time is to valuable fro your indoctrinations.

If you want to hear a true intellectual, not associated with the "The Crown", try Chris Hedges. Noam Chomsky. ...Or Mearsheimer. This one smells.

The academic achievements are, indeed, not a guarantee of either a humain, responsible moral stance or the responsible humain politics. ... As clearly demonstrated in the speaker, Ferguson's gaslightning, by associating a healthy, natural instinct of a student organisations protesting Israeli 🇮🇱 apartheid state and ongoing genocide, with his piers, the career academics dependent on the imperial state for their few pieces of silver (salaries, etc...) and their rented social standing. Students protesting injustices while oppressive, state (or by rich, zionist donors) professors, calling upon "help" by state-police and state courts... And Ferguson, gaslightning, carefully avoiding talking about the decades old Israeli apartheid and now genocide. Whatta picture.

Self-censorship is self governance. Neither of these guys' wives haven't bothered telling them what, exactly, that is. We are all in the locker room, now.

I am a child of former enemy nations. I am politically active but it is no longer in the traditionally hard left sphere. I research both sides from primary sources. It is why I am on the internet. If we consider ourselves academics or even well educated, now is the time to do our own research.

Let’s understand clearly - the educated and the uneducated have plenty of manufactured strife on their hands - in small towns to continents. The easy intellectual analysis of the right is the elixir for their justified pursuits of authoritarian governance, no different the authoritarian tendencies of the left’s desire for homogeny and equality. They all end up in the same spot in the pursuit of their ideological purity. It’s just far easier on the right due to the biological alignment of the psychoperceptual foundations of their convictions and behavior that is born from it. Their lessened dissonance is a true advantage over their deep hypocrisies. Anger and divine proclamations do play well for TV. The right has it made, despite the substandard quality of the vast majority of their mantras.

In the same way that the anti-west marxists conquered universities in the West