Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the decline of academia and the distorting of American history; the backlash to the progressive woke politics that are being forced on children and how it may make the next generation less "woke";  how increasingly intolerant political correctness is causing the decline of higher education; the riots and the toppling of historic statues; and the inaccuracies of the New York Times's Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project and how it distorts US history.

Like most of you, I have had to mix up my routine personally and professionally during the pandemic. One escape I have found worthy has been reading epic biographies of two of the most famous leaders in our history: Winston Churchill and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover’s career—and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955—The Crusade Years is a previously unknown memoir that Hoover composed and revised during the 1940s and 1950s—and then, surprisingly, set aside.