Lil’ Jacobins

Jonah gratefully drags a harried Niall Ferguson onto the show, which begins with Angela Merkel and ends with “copious quantities of claret.” Listen to Jonah and Niall — mostly Niall, of the Mellifluous Voice — speak in tongues, lament the destruction of critical thinking in universities, and sneak in a jab at Woodrow Wilson [dun dun dun]. Show Notes: -Angela Merkel on “the toughest situation” in Europe’s history  -Communities of fate, coined by our grave German friends -The New Republic’s contest for the most boring headline  -Rescuing the nation-state, commentary by Alan S. Milward  -Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson  -That whom Niall is not -The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations, by Paul Kennedy  -Cornell, guns-on-campus  -Too many educated men, by Boyle  -NBER paper on how more people actually stayed home during the protests  -Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy  -Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson  -Piece by Niall and Eyck Freymann  -Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism, by Derrick Bell  -For fun, the Yale Course Catalog, which Jonah perused a few years ago  -ExpressVPN.com/Remnant for 3 months free off a year-long plan