Old Socialist on Ferguson and South Park!
Mar 01, 2026
Editor: Mr. Fergusons latest fore into Pop Culture: compare and contrast with this collection of Fergusons commetaries that follow this The Free Press chatter! ‘South Park’ is the measure of an utterly re-imagined Ferguson? A collection of those highbrow commetaries will follow!
On the Inconvience Of History: the case of Niall Ferguson from May 08, 2013!
Posted on March 18, 2025 by stephenkmacksd
Newspaper Reader: A case of bad judgement or someting else? stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 16, 2025 The historian Niall Ferguson has denied being an “gay-basher”, claiming that his friendship with the prominent homosexual blogger Andrew Sullivan showed that he could not be … Continue reading →
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Niall Ferguson opines: ‘Biden Can’t Pay His Way Out of Fighting Cold War II’
Posted on May 22, 2024 by stephenkmacksd
Political Observer comments. The regular reader of Mr. Niall Ferguson’s cumbersome , bloated historical panoramas, the word count in this instance is 2596 -The Straussian method is to drown the reader in verbiage, ideas, actors, as a strategy to make … Continue reading →
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Posted on June 16, 2023 by stephenkmacksd
Political Observer comments. This discussion begins at the 01:20 point and ends before the 21:18 point. Katy Balls asks questions of her two guests Ferguson and Grey act the parts of Political Technocrats, relying on ‘Polling Data’ as a reliable source- … Continue reading →
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Niall Ferguson in three keys. Political Skeptic reads the irrepressible ‘expert’ !
Posted on May 11, 2021 by stephenkmacksd
In the May 7, 2021 edition of the the TLS, Charles King’s reviews Niall Ferguson’s new book ‘Doom: The politics of catastrophe’. Some revelatory excerpts: … At its best, Doom is a vade mecum to misery. Whatever readers are facing … Continue reading →
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Posted on November 4, 2020 by stephenkmacksd
I woke up at 4:30 AM PST, this morning, and checked twitter for the latest Election News, not knowing what to expect, other than bad news. Now at the breakfast table, I’ve read first the Editorial Board of The Financial … Continue reading →
Posted on September 22, 2020 by stephenkmacksd
The reader can only wonder at Mr. Ferguson’s – what reads like nostalgia for George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson, of Prop 87? Oh! sorry he is just a late arrival to California, 2016, in its advanced state of ‘Decadence/Decay’ the … Continue reading →
Niall Ferguson on The Pandemic & other pressing questions. Political Observer comments
Posted on June 22, 2020 by stephenkmacksd
I came here from The Financial Times. Just looking at Gideon Rachman’s latest essay, made me a bit queasy: Headline: India picks a side in the new cold war Sub-headline: It is folly for China to drive its rival into … Continue reading →
Posted on June 8, 2020 by stephenkmacksd
Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Mr. Ferguson left the august Times ? ‘He is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm.’ Mr. Ferguson is another peddler, with his vaunted ‘expertise’ like … Continue reading →
Niall Ferguson & Gideon Rachman on ‘Sleepy Joe’. Political Observer comments
Posted on March 9, 2020 by stephenkmacksd
In his column of Sunday March 8, 2020, Niall Ferguson: Headline: Sleepy Joe Biden has given Donald Trump a wake-up call Sub-headline: Despite his senior moments, the comeback codger has a real shot I know Joe Biden. Not well, but … Continue reading →
Niall Ferguson & Edward Luce on Michael Bloomberg. Old Socialist comments
Posted on February 24, 2020 by stephenkmacksd
Compare Mr. Luce’s ‘political wisdom’, or should it be properly named a collection of reportorial, rhetorical cliches, a product of lazy thinking, that could have been written in haste? to that of Niall Ferguson’s essay of Sunday 23, 2020: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2020-02-23/comment/michael-bloomberg-leads-in-cash-but-trails-in-charisma-hvjd33zxm … Continue reading →
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