In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss historian Niall Ferguson’s “We’re All Soviets Now,” a viral essay about American economic and cultural decline.
Among the topics covered:
* Ferguson’s argument that America is following the path of the late USSR;
* The disanalogies between America and the Soviet Union;
* Ferguson’s blindness to the role of ideas in his comparative analysis;
* How Ferguson’s doomsaying prepares the grounds for authoritarianism;
* How some of Ferguson’s valid criticisms misidentify root causes of American decline.
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