So It Goes: Niall Ferguson on Good Books, Bad Screens, a 1968 Redux, and Hobbits | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

News Commentary, Government, News, News:news Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In a topsy-turvy election year, does America’s 2024 presidential contest summon ghosts from 1968 — or, is a late-breaking 1980-style landslide in the cards?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Collected works of Dickens?
0:02.0	Collected works of George Bernard Shaw.
0:09.0	Books!
0:10.0	Books!
0:11.0	All the books I'll need!
0:13.0	All the books I'll ever want!
0:16.0	Shelley, Shakespeare, Shaw!
0:20.0	And the best thing, the very best thing of all,
0:25.6	is there's time now.
0:28.6	There's all the time I need and all the time I want. That's not fair.
0:47.3	That's not fair at all.
0:51.3	That's not fair.
0:53.3	I'm Bill Whalen.
0:58.0	I'm a distinguished policy fellow here at the Hoover Institution.
1:01.0	I'd like to welcome you back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social,
1:05.0	economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.
1:08.0	Actually, this is a different form of Goodfellows today.
1:10.0	It's what we call a mini version of Goodfellows today. It's what we call
1:11.3	a mini version of Goodfellows, a mini show because instead of our usual triumvirate of senior fellows,
1:16.6	we have just one senior fellow for you today. And that would be the international man of history
1:20.7	himself, the one and only Neil Ferguson. Neil is the Hoover Institution's Milbank family senior
1:25.6	fellow. He also spearheads the Hoover Institution's History Working Group and Hoover's History Lab. To say the man's a prolific writer would be a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hoover Institution, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hoover Institution and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.