Finishing off our series on freedom of speech, renowned historian Niall Ferguson discusses ideological conflict both between America and China and within the United States, and particularly our universities. Along the way, he shares important lessons from academic culture during the World Wars, how history ought to be taught, how optimistic we should be about the future of tech, and, of course, his newest project, the University of Austin.

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is the author of 16 books, most recently Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, which has been shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He is a founder of the University of Austin, a new university in Austin, TX.

More on Niall: https://www.hoover.org/profiles/niall...
More on UATX: https://www.uaustin.org/
His latest book, "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe": https://bookshop.org/p/books/doomthe...
His recent essay for The Free Press, “The Treason of the Intellectuals,” referenced during the episode: https://www.thefp.com/p/niallferguso...

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