Herbert Hoover’s example and his appeal, still strong nearly a hundred years later, for “a better, brighter, broader individualism.”

The recent NFL protests were more dutiful than daring. Freedom has made the theme of victimization obsolete.

Not too many years ago, we were still dreaming sweet dreams of a high-tech utopia. Now computer users have been awakened, rather rudely. Hoover fellow Niall Ferguson guides us through the new and often menacing reality.

The revolution will be televised—and tweeted, and posted, and Instagrammed. Language is today’s truly disruptive technology.