A Television Don in Newsweek

RWA1 linked on Facebook tonight to this article by the economic (?) historian (?) Niall Ferguson, with the endorsement "Ferguson is a good historian, and the analysis rings true." I'd heard Ferguson's name before, thanks probably to his infotainment PBS and BBC tie-ins, but till now I hadn't read anything he'd written and knew nothing about him.The Daily Beast piece doesn't inspire much