Niall Ferguson…is…Siiiiiinkiiiing…..
Posted on August 20th, 2012 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
NY Mag adds to the pile-on. So does Salon, which calls him “an intellectual fraud.”
This won’t be easy for him to recover from, which is as it should be. His Newsweek piece is the same kind of intellectual corruption that Fareed Zakaria committed—cutting corners for the sake of power- and money-grabbing—and the sleight of hand is starting to become transparent.
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8/20/2012 3:27 pm
See also the Atlantic’s Matthew O’Brien and the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein. What’s important about Klein’s piece is that it shows how much this is a part of a trend with Ferguson.