Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict and Woke Students
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
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What Advice Would You Give to Students Who Are Leaving University?
I'm making a concerted effort to found new institutions on both sides of the Atlantic that will advance individual freedom, he says. What advice would you give youngsters who are leaving university? Leaving it or going through it. I mean what advice do you give such students? Read. The most serious problem for anyone aged around 20 is you've almost certainly not read enough because you've been distracted in ways that my generation weren't. If you haven't read War and Peace are you really understand War and Peace? To give just one example if you've never read a novel by Thomas Hardy do you really understand the nature of contingency in human relations? You should never go on tick tock. It's
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