the rigid imposition of a narrow ideology and the rise of anti-Semitism,

German universities between the wars and American universities today.

Historian Neil Ferguson on Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. A fellow at the Hoover Institution,

Neil Ferguson received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Oxford.

Before coming here to Stanford, he held posts at Oxford, Cambridge, NYU, Harvard, and the London School of Economics.

Professor Ferguson is the author of more than a dozen

major works of history, including The Pity of War, explaining World War I, and Kissinger

The Idealist, the first volume of his projected two-volume biography of the late Henry Kissinger.

Our topic today, the essay Professor Ferguson published just last month,

The Treason of the Intellectuals.

Neil, welcome.

Good to be with you, Peter.

Neil Ferguson in the free press December 10th.

For nearly 10 years I have marveled at the treason of my fellow intellectuals.

Throughout that period, friends have assured me that I was exaggerating, who could possibly

object to more diversity, equality, and inclusion on campus.

Such arguments fell apart after October 7th, close quote.

Let's take that bit by bit.

The treason of your fellow intellectuals.

You're of course playing on a famous essay by a Frenchman in 1920, something rather la Trayson de Claire.

That's right. But you use the word treason of your own experience of your fellow academics.

What exactly are they betraying?

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