You know who's funny? Niall Ferguson. I for some ungodly reason was looking at the silly things Andrew Sullivan says, and I saw this Niall Ferguson video.
The first half hour seems to be set in a Beckettian Florida retirement center rec room, where Ferguson is plaintively haranguing old people about how pathetic young people are for being interested in politics in general and Barack Obama in particular. The other half hours I didn't watch.
Niall Ferguson wishes to cement his reputation as a Scholarly Historian Whose Ideas Shake the World by doubling down on the McCainiac Surge and, apparently, by being the proxy for McCainiac anti-young people ads of the Grandpa Simpson caliber.
Is there a more egregious academic sellout than Niall Ferguson? I say no.