SELECTS: The American College Crack-Up - with Niall Ferguson
b'In this special re-published episode, we revisit a captivating conversation that resonated deeply with our audience, offering new listeners an opportunity to delve into the insights shared by Niall Ferguson. \\n\\nIn this decade we may finally experience a true crack-up in higher education. There have been comparable periods on American college campuses in the past (in the 1960s and 1980s, for example). \\n\\nBut our guest today, historian Niall Ferguson, believes what\\u2019s happening now is on a whole other level. Niall is doing something about it -- he\\u2019s started a new university. Niall argues that parents -- who had enriching and intellectually diverse experiences when they went to college --\\xa0\\xa0don\\u2019t fully appreciate that their own children will experience something completely different when they go off to university.\\xa0\\xa0Niall Ferguson has taught at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and New York University. He\\u2019s authored 17 books. He\\u2019s currently at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University where he is the MIllbank Family Senior Fellow, and Managing Director of Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm.\\n\\nOrder Niall\\u2019s most recent book, \\u201cDoom: The Politics of Catastrophe\\u201d here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/doom-niall-ferguson/1137713414\\n\\nLearn more about the University of Austin here: https://www.uaustin.org/\\n\\nLearn more about Greenmantle here: https://www.gmantle.com/'