Comments on: Contra Niall

By: Sadly, No! » Dumbing-Down The Word

Sadly, No! » Dumbing-Down The Word — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:10:13 +0000

[...] Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at [...]

By: Sin

Sin — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:06:30 +0000

Heh. Nice. Actually I find him rather entertaining. Particularly the “or something” at the end of that quote.

By: NDR

NDR — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:05:58 +0000

Shouldn’t the scenario be: Bush trusted the weapons inspectors; nothing was found and no one died; the UN gained credibiity as an international organization?

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:42:44 +0000

Niall Ferguson makes me want to spit. Although making fun of him is an ever-fruitful source of entertainment at Oxford dinner parties. I remember writing to my mentor when ‘Empire’ first came out–’I think it’s really a sign of complete intellectual decline when a historian has a book with a Glamour Shots sexy-author-photo on the back.’ Nice exemplar above.

When he writes something that drives me really mad (Eurabia still takes the cake), I just think of the Islamic Studies Centre going up, stone-by-stone amidst the spires, and picture him seething. It helps.

By: emullah

emullah — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:13:33 +0000

…. and there is some serious ass kicking going on by Saudi students in US.