Casablanca for Conservatives - Niall Ferguson plays the victim

Having enjoyed tenure at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, and New York University, and now a steady gig at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the historian Niall Ferguson now plays the victim. He will soon decamp, he lets us imagine, to “a new kind of university – the University of Austin.”

 If Friedrich Engels were still around, could he endow a chair for Karl Marx?

Still, after reading Ferguson’s announcement, I cannot help but hear Humphrey Bogart’s famous words echoing in my ear: “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, [he] walks into mine...”

James K. Galbraith, a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security, holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.  

Project Syndicate 12 November 2021

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/university-of-austin-by-james-k-galbraith-2021-11

Humphrey Bogart’s famous words 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/

Some people were apparently shocked to learn that gambling was occurring at Rick's Cabaret

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