Historian: Woke Politics Destroying US History & Academia | Niall Ferguson Interview

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Niall Ferguson (Historian, Hoover Institute Senior Fellow) about the decline of academia and the distorting of American history. Niall discusses the backlash to the progressive woke politics that are being forced on children and how it may make the next generation less "woke". Niall also discusses how increasingly intolerant political correctness is causing the decline of higher education. Niall also gives his opinion of the toppling of historic statues. Niall discusses the inaccuracies of the New York Times's Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project and how it distorts US history. Niall discusses why he is not worried about the current wave of protests across the country or any approaching tyranny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Ruben Report and according to Big Tech, I'm Dave Ruben.
0:08.1	Reminder everybody to subscribe to our YouTube channel and click that notification bell for
0:12.6	notifications.
0:13.6	That's what the bell's there for.
0:15.2	And joining me today is a historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford
0:20.3	University, Neil Ferguson.
0:22.1	Welcome back to the Ruben Report.
0:24.2	It's great to be back virtually Dave.
0:26.0	I'd profess me back really, but hey, it's the plague year.
0:30.2	It is the plague year.
0:31.5	You know, last time you were on the show, you flew in, you bolted from the airport.
0:36.8	We talked as fast as we could for about an hour and a half and then you bolted and left
0:40.3	again.
0:41.3	So this must be very calming for you to be able to be at home and relax and at a computer
0:45.8	because you're a busy guy.
0:48.0	It is very calming.
0:50.2	I had not spent three months in one location for 20 years.
0:57.3	And I think I had fallen victim to hypermability and hyperglobalization where if I wasn't on
1:04.6	a long haul flight at least once a week, I felt there was something wrong with my life.
1:09.7	And having that all stopped has been a real blessing.
1:14.5	Not everybody gets to work from home.
1:17.0	I'm one of the lucky ones who can.
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