Encore: Harvard “History” Professor Niall Ferguson Strikes Again

Harvard “history” professor Niall Ferguson said that John Maynard Keynes was short-sighted because he was gay and childless. Niall Ferguson is a stain on academia; we should not be surprised that he’s tenured at Harvard. Every elite university has its share of controversy. Torture memo author John Yoo still works at Boalt, here in Berzerkeley […]

Devil’s Advocate: Should editorialists disclose political affiliations?

I wasn’t planning on writing another Devil’s Advocate so soon after the first one, but the combination of disgraced Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson‘s partisan lies about Obama making the cover of Newsweek as “editorial” and UC Berkeley’s own The Daily Californian publishing the anti-marijuana and anti-Rep. Barbara Lee lies of a non-expert named Roger Morgan […]