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

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