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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
The University Predates the Printing Press
There is a unique thing that happens on a university campus when it's done right. But in order for it to work well, there needs to be very few constraints. There needs to be a sense that one can take intellectual risk. And I'd love to get a synthesis of the ancient and classical which we're gradually letting fade away with the novel. We want people who can simultaneously talk intelligently about Adam Smith or Proust.
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