Ferguson’s toxic fusion of arrogance and ignorance – about the Middle East, about Persian culture, about Asia, about the nuclear issue, about the oil industry, about, in fact, “the Rest” – would be just innocuous hadn’t he be hailed as a top public intellectual. The best thing about his piece are actually the comments, ranging from “I’m shocked that a research fellow at Jesus College would advocate the bombing of Muslims” to “What’s with all these Brits that look to the USA as a platform to re-inflate their dreams of Empire?”
