Tuesday, May 24, 2011

So it's not just me and Historian on the Edge, then...

Apparently, Mark Lind at Salon.com thinks even less of Ferguson than I do.

Just for starters, Lind asks, "What accounts for the attention lavished by the American media on a huckster as vulgar and shallow as Niall Ferguson?"

Later, he tells us a little of what he really thinks: "...Niall Ferguson has the moral imagination of a teenage boy addicted to gruesome video games."

I think he's wrong about Fritz the Cat, though. Unless Ferguson really said that. But I'm giving Ferguson some credit here, and will assume the cat in question ia Felix.

3 comments:

Steve Muhlberger said...

It's me, too.

Jonathan Dresner said...

Have you read my twitter feed? It would be hard to think less of Ferguson than I do, But Lind makes a good attempt.

Another Damned Medievalist said...

I just didn't want to speak for too many others!