Liberty in a Cold Climate with Niall Ferguson (2 of 2)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- On February 6 and 7, 2024, the James Madison Program hosted Niall Ferguson for its annual Charles E. Test, M.D. '37 Distinguished Lecture Series. This year's two-lecture series was titled "Liberty in a Cold Climate."
Lecture 2: The Constitution of Academic Liberty - February 7, 2024
Recent years have witnessed a steep decline in academic freedom and scholarly standards at U.S. universities. In this lecture, a theory of academic governance is proposed and the example given of a university constitution designed to promote academic freedom and standards in new ways.
Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, FRSE, 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 at Harvard. He is the author of sixteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-winning filmmaker, too, having received an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His 2018 book, The Square and the Tower, was a New York Times bestseller and was also adapted for television by PBS as Niall Ferguson’s Networld. In 2020 he joined Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm, a co-founder of Ualá (a Latin American financial technology company), and a trustee of the New York Historical Society, the London-based Centre for Policy Studies, and the newly founded University of Austin. His latest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, was published in 2021 by Penguin and was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He is currently writing Kissinger, 1969-2023: The Player and serving as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
hundred years from now when people look back at what changed in education in America to bring about the freedom of debate we 'now enjoy'................................NIALL FERGUSON WILL BE REMEMBER AS ONE OF THOSE GREAT INFLUENCERS IN THE WORLD!!!
Professor Ferguson, Thank you for putting this content on line for this non-Princeton former student. Now I know what I was missing. I seem to notice that you are suddenly everywhere. Out here in the wilderness of mis-information (lies) and propaganda your content is truly enlightening. Than you.
Go man go. Gail ⁰
Victor - Strike while the iron is hot! Given the demonstrable failure of Harvard, Penn State and MIT, per the performance (or the lack thereof) by college presidents before a Congressional hearing under the examination of Rep. Elise Stafanik (R-NY), now would be the time to get out there and offer an alternative.
It is my hope that one of my young grandchildren will be able to apply to the University of Austin in the future.
I bet you love that. Your children are already going to attend this "university" free of charge on Texas taxpayers money.
@@homayounshirazi9550 No, we’re out of state. Besides, by the time they are old enough, there will be other U of Austins. The Ivys forgot the one inviolable rule of branding: don’t screw with the quality.
One of my fondest memories is watching Calculus classes on 6am television channels as an toddler in 1960. I didn't understand a word of it probably, but it benefitted me nonetheless.
I sat through lectures and haunted the stacks of the library from ages 5 thru 12 as my mom became a Teacher. First of the family to step up from stoop labor and farming.
If I may suggest a motto Quaerere Verum
Very exited for this new institution. I would love to be involved in some way!
Congratulations for this very needed venture!
Is truly an inspiration to see one of the greatest historian, and human being, once again, take the lead in restoring the greatness of our society!
Truly an inspiring Leader!
The Groves of Academe - you made me look it up. The spirit of my mom lives on!
Always the option of establishing a chair of ethical studies, the Utube chair mebbe, crowd sourced of course.
Outstanding !
25:47 got my attention about free and unfree societies: “It appears that one does not need a dictator to have the pathologies of a totalitarian society.”
Starts at 3.48.
Yes, the ghosts of Lenin and Marcuse haunt the groves of academe today.
Conversely, I had to wonder if William F. Buckley (RIP) ever sat in that lecture hall.
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@@TheWhitehiker - YIKES! I clearly mistook Princeton for Yale. Apologies.
'Think To Dare'
Keep University of Austin weird & free!
As of my viewing, Columbia University is at 214th in the FIRE free-speech assessment...
A certain sad state of affairs...
Everybody gangsta til the judiciary learns to find penumbras in the constitution.
Somebody, anybody please tell me, what's "Hossein Mousavian" doing in PRINCETON?
What happened to the audio on this?
I'm hearing the _Terminator_ theme tune. Am I nuts? Lol, sort of. My videos are an example of what history students need to encounter, but presumably never will. For the usual reasons no doubt.
The audio on this video was very annoying, with the speaker only audible on the right channel and the audience audible on the left channel, generating random noise during the the time before the Q&A. Dr. Ferguson deserves better...
OUTSTANDING MR FERGUSON.................................I HOPE THE AUSTIN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM WILL BE EXPORTED TO UK BEFORE ITS TO LATE!!!
Niall, the problem you are trying to tackle is way beyond the high education system, the root of the phenomenon is all through the high and middle school education, and goes down to the conservative ideology itself. Just think about the fact that after almost two centuries, the Maxism is still floating around. What does this tell us?
It tells us that we need to abolish the federal Dept. of Education. Without it's funding and direction public schools and the pilot fish of public education, the teachers' unions, will shrivel in order to allow free speech and Christian values to flourish again.
what about the treason of capital?
I think he addressed that via Adam Ferguson in the mid-18th century.
I recommend that you open your perception beyond the ridiculous cramped coceptions of "right" and " left", and the fight between the Democrats and the Republicans. There should be a different analysis of the many different ways of thinking and perceiving the challenges of our lives in this amazing creation.
Christ divine nature central authority unity save from political government cross separating people from God
It appears that Mr Ferguson is tacitly advocating for an "affirmative action" for Republican leaning applicants for any available university positions. He does not , however, address the issue as to whether there is indeed a suitable pool of qualified Republican leaning candidates for the university positions currently available. Statistics certainly make the case that the Republican leaning population as a whole in the United States is considerably less educated than their Democratic counterparts.
Wokism or vindictism? Both sides attack with lies and vitriol. People don't want to be attacked online
To bad there wasn't a Yanis Varoufakis, of the birthplace of democracy, to grill the speaker after his self-righteously conservative lecture filled with out of date fiscal opinions.
No worries. You'll find that at 98% of all institutions of higher education.
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