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Jan 23, 2024 · “The Treason Of The Intellectuals,” With Niall Ferguson. In this interview, Ferguson discusses his stunning essay “The Treason of the Intellectuals,” published in December 2023 in the Free Press. The essay delves deeply into the changes Ferguson has observed in his 30-year career as an academic, especially over the past 10 years.
By Niall Ferguson. December 10, 2023. In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs —“The Treason of the Intellectuals”—which condemned the descent of European intellectuals into extreme nationalism and racism. By that point, although Benito Mussolini had been in power in Italy for five years, Adolf Hitler ...
Jan 24, 2024 · In this interview, Ferguson discusses his essay “ The Treason of the Intellectuals ,” published in December 2023 in the Free Press. The essay delves deeply into the changes Ferguson has ...
Dec 13, 2023 · On 11 December the historian Niall Ferguson wrote an essay on “The Treason of the Intellectuals” for the online platform The Free Press, taking his title from the famous work by the French intellectual Julien Benda, La Trahison des Clercs (1927). Benda’s book was an all-out attack on how European intellectuals who should have upheld the ...
Jan 23, 2024 · Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. In this interview, Ferguson discusses his stunning essay “The Treason of the Intellectuals,” published in December 2023 in the Free Press. The essay delves deeply into the changes ...
Dec 12, 2023 · Commentary: The Treason of the Intellectuals. Excerpt: Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill ethical values has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich. A university degree, far from inoculating Germans against Nazism, made them more likely to embrace it. Niall Ferguson The Free ...
