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Niall Ferguson

What Is An Acceptable Defense Against A Charge Of Bigotry?

Michael Hobbes | Posted 05.14.2013 | Gay Voices
Michael Hobbes

Niall Ferguson didn't hide behind "I'm sorry for any offense I might have caused." He admitted that what he said about John Maynard Keynes was a stupid comment and took responsibility, so we're moving on, right? Not so fast, replied the Internet.

Niall Ferguson's Big Step Back Over 'Homophobic' Comments

Posted 05.10.2013 | Gay Voices

Editor's note: The following editorial was written by Harvard professor and economist Niall Ferguson and was originally published in the Harvard Crims...

Think Again: Niall Ferguson's Gay Theory for the World's Economic Problems Is Nothing If Not Novel

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.09.2013 | Media
Eric Alterman

Perhaps the best reason to doubt the sincerity of Ferguson's retraction, however, is his complete lack of any compelling explanation of why he would wish to say such a thing in the first place.

Mark Gongloff

Niall Ferguson Digs Himself Deeper

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.08.2013 | Business

You would think that a Harvard historian would know about the First Law of Holes: When in a hole, stop digging. But Harvard historian Niall Ferguso...

Gay People To Blame For 'Collapse Of The Western Economy,' Pundit Claims

Posted 05.07.2013 | Gay Voices

Bryan Fischer has previously stated that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people should face job discrimination and implied that members ...

Is Outrage Driving Homophobia Underground?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.07.2013 | Gay Voices
Nathaniel Frank

Maybe all the outbursts are doing us a favor by allowing us to understand and address homophobia. But the outbursts can only be helpful if they are taken seriously and not dismissed or censored by the outrage police.

Austerity in De-Niall

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

As the austerity's intellectual claims are discredited, its advocates are confronted with a choice: Face their own errors, correct them, and participate in honest discourse. Or cover up, obfuscate, and (in Niall Ferguson's case) turn mean and desperate.

Niall Ferguson Makes Absurd Claim About Famous Economist, Then Apologizes

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 05.06.2013 | Business

Harvard historian Niall Ferguson has apologized for remarks claiming John Maynard Keynes' theory of economics was doomed to failure because Keynes hi...

Stiglitz: ‘There Is No Instance Of A Large Economy Getting To Growth Through Austerity'

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 04.11.2013 | Business

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has some choice words for anyone who thinks the only way to improve the economy is to tighten the countr...

FIGHT!

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.07.2013 | Business

Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson have gotten themselves into yet another public spat. The latest back-and-forth between the New York Times columnist...

Jason Linkins

Niall Ferguson Has Some Lu-Lu October Surprise Suggestions For Newsweek Readers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.31.2012 | Politics

Over at Foreign Policy, Daniel Drezner has gotten a look-see at the latest Niall Ferguson column in Newsweek, and finds that the "Civilization" author...

WATCH: Niall Ferguson On 'More Europe'

Posted 09.24.2012 | Business

Niall Ferguson is surprised by how little anti-European sentiment there is within Europe. The preferred solution for many is More Europe; Ferguson unp...

The Wealthiest Who Benefit Most From Government

Harlan Green | Posted 08.27.2012 | Politics
Harlan Green

Why not starve government, since the misinformation gang opposes almost any form of financial or environmental regulation, while neglecting aging infrastructure and falling behind other developed countries in education?

The Shamefulness of Niall Ferguson

Eric Zuesse | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics
Eric Zuesse

The current Newsweek cover story, "Hit the Road, Barack: Why We Need a New President," is now stirring public attention because of its false allegatio...

Should You Trust Academic Celebrities?

Thomas David DuBois | Posted 10.22.2012 | Politics
Thomas David DuBois

The first thing to understand about academic celebrities is that the role they play in public life is very different from what they do professionally.

WATCH: Tina Brown Defends Hyper-Controversial Newsweek Piece

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 08.22.2012 | Media

Newsweek editor Tina Brown defended her magazine's hyper-controversial latest issue in a Wednesday appearance on "Morning Joe." Newsweek has been s...

Harvard Professor Strikes Back At Paul Krugman

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 08.21.2012 | Business

Niall Ferguson fired back at Paul Krugman on Bloomberg TV on Tuesday while defending his Newsweek cover story, which claimed health care reform will i...

Newsweek Under Fire Over Niall Ferguson Article

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 10.21.2012 | Media

The controversy over Newsweek's latest issue is continuing to swirl, and the magazine itself is coming under fire. What might be called "l'affaire ...

Krugman Blasts Niall Ferguson

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 08.21.2012 | Business

Paul Krugman says that Newsweek needs to issue a correction for columnist Niall Ferguson's new cover story on why President Obama does not deserve ree...

Disrupting Congress

Charles Kolb | Posted 08.11.2012 | Politics
Charles Kolb

Today's Congress is a paragon of inefficiency, rent-seeking, crony capitalism, wasted time, and public embarrassment. Coherent and timely legislating focused on the nation's top priorities seems to be an afterthought, at best

Will Germany Lead?

Scott Malcomson | Posted 08.11.2012 | World
Scott Malcomson

At the Council on the Future of Europe, the dominant note was of nervousness at the state of Spain's financial system, combined with resolve to rally German opinion behind greater fiscal coordination and debt mutualization.

WATCH: One Direction Claims That They Are, In Fact, A Boy Band

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 05.30.2012 | Entertainment

One Direction wants to set one thing straight: Unlike the boy bands of yesteryear (RIP *NSYNC), they don't dance. Maybe there's an occasional fist pum...

Ferguson: Krugman May Be Right, 'Very Large Debts Are Sustainable'

Business Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 01.31.2012 | Business

Unless countries get control of their ballooning debts, Ferguson has argued, we will be headed for crisis after crisis. And Ferguson remains convinced...

Chanos Crash: Timing China's Financial Meltdown

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 02.05.2012 | Business
Janet Tavakoli

China is becoming a version of the U.S., but it's the version that builds lots of Penn Centrals in record time to connect slapped together empty cities before going bankrupt.

Favorite Books On Our Radar

Posted 01.02.2012 | Books

We get so many books in the mail, you wouldn't believe. I know, your heart bleeds for us. Most of them, to be brutal yet honest, merit little more tha...