Biden's Foreign Policy Failures, Rise of Woke Police, and the Value of Religion, with Niall Ferguson | Ep. 534

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Niall Ferguson, best-selling author and senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, to talk about Biden announcing he's running for re-election next week, the Trump vs. DeSantis GOP divide, Ukraine-Russia foreign policy conversation among the GOP candidates, the foreign policy successes of the Trump administration and failures of the Biden administration, the China-Taiwan showdown coming, why Megyn is paying for Twitter Blue and supporting Elon's Twitter ownership, the Biden administration's virtue signaling policy-making, chilling of free speech by "woke police" on college campuses," the University of Austin's mission, building the Navy SEALS of the brain, importance of religion and spirituality even for non-believers, dating and marrying Ayaan Hirsi Ali who has a fatwa against her, the toll it takes, whether our institutions in America can withstand this woke revolution, and more. More on Ferguson: https://www.niallferguson.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and Happy Friday.
0:16.7	Today we bring you world renowned historian Neil Ferguson.
0:20.9	I have been so looking forward to talking to Neil.
0:23.7	We have had many friends of Neil's on this show, Douglas Murray and Drew Sullivan is not
0:28.7	only his friend, but Godfather to one of his sons.
0:33.4	And his wife is a superstar and one of my idols, Ion Hersey Ali, the one and only.
0:39.7	Now we finally get to talk with Neil himself for the full show.
0:43.5	One thing about Neil is his name is spelled in a way that really makes you want to call
0:47.6	him Nile.
0:48.6	He's Scottish.
0:49.9	Anyway, it's Neil.
0:51.6	He's the Millbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
0:55.7	and author of many bestselling books, including 2021's Doom, The Politics of Catastrophe.
1:01.4	He has fascinating thoughts on wokeism, religion, Trump, American Forum Policy, and much,
1:06.4	much more.
1:07.4	Neil, great to have you here.
1:09.4	Megan, it's a great pleasure.
1:11.0	Yes, so I'm going to, it's it'll be easier for me to call you Neil since I'm looking at
1:14.8	you, but whenever I read your stuff, I'm like, Nile, why is that the Scottish way of
1:20.6	spelling Neil?
1:22.8	But it's it's Gallic.
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