I would just like to say that while Niall Ferguson is the snappiest dresser I’ve ever met, and the kind of academic superstar who seems to glow from within, a person who oozes confidence and brilliance from every pore, and insanely productive in the way that only products of the British Isles seem to be, in every way what he’s written and spoken about American politics suggests he understands the way this country works about as well as I understand the control panels on a 747. The article Ramesh cites may be the most ridiculous thing I have read about America since Paul Kennedy decided we were suffering from “imperial overstretch” in the 1980s just a year before the entire edifice of Communism began collapsing from within.

Worth reading for a laugh…