Peter Robinson convened an assembly of three of our most prominent living historians — Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts — to discuss issues including the false premise of the 1619 Project, the recent controversy regarding Winston Churchill’s role in World War II, the Cold War, and other items of interest. This is the first time the three have appeared together in a public forum.
Tucker Carlson promoted Darryl Cooper as perhaps “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” This assessment is hilariously ignorant. At best. It is in any event responsible for the segment of the discussion beginning at about 10:00 of the latest episode of Peter’s Uncommon Knowledge program (recorded on October 17, posted on November 6).
Dirty Harry’s adage applies to Cooper, if not to Carlson: “A man’s got to know his limitations.” Cooper represents a groaningly unfunny variant of Franz Liebkind, the unreconstructed Nazi of The Producers: “Hitler was better looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair and he told funnier jokes and he could dance the pants off of Churchill!” Somewhat more charitably, Niall Ferguson describes Cooper’s views as representing “an imbecile level of argument.”
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