Niall (Neil) Ferguson

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315 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · AI is Activating Antisemites Left and Right - with Niall Ferguson · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

One thing I've learned from the study of history is that a small dynamic institution can do a lot.

It can be an example for others, but if nothing else, it can produce an elite that hasn't had its mind poisoned.

And third thing that I'm intent on doing is not going on TikTok and not wasting my time in a doomed battle with gripers and democratic socialists.

It would be a waste of my energy and in some ways a compromise of my integrity to try to play their game.

I mean, ultimately I said what fools we were, I really meant what fools my generation of historians were.

You know, Richard Evans and I are not great friends.

He's on the left, I'm on the right, but ultimately we're on the same side.

I mean, we both devoted our lives to writing books, sometimes big books, about aspects of German history.

I think we were the fools because we kind of thought at the time of the Irving trial, that's it.

We've got a decisive victory there.

That's it.

On the record, the most influential of the Holocaust deniers, David Irving, who was seen as a serious historian by many people and whose work had slipped imperceptibly but fatally into Holocaust denial, he's discredited.

Game over.

Thanks for playing, Antisemites.

Go back to your basements and generate your self-published garbage.

Nobody's going to read it.

So that's the delusion that we kind of thought we'd won.

And we didn't realize that the rules of that time were going to be swept away by the transformation of the public sphere by the internet and the advent of algorithmic media, which people would naively think was social media, and the entry into our discourse of a vast army of fake people.

The good news about history.

Maybe this is an optimistic note to conclude on.

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