We're on record for being con on war-mongering pro-colonialist Harvard biz school prof Niall Ferguson, but here is a substantial accounting of Fergusonianism and his Civilization: The West and the Rest. (Warning: green type on black background!) It's pretty choice.

Historian and Laurence A. Tisch Professor at Harvard University Niall Ferguson,

War-mongering health-care privatization advocate Niall Ferguson is the sort of person who gets to take to the pages of Newsweek to declare himself appalled that people use the Internet for bad things! "The clash of civilizations would have been easy for the West to win if it had simply pitted the ideas and institutions of the 21st century against those of the seventh. No such luck. In the new mash of civilizations, our most dangerous foes are the Islamists who understand how to post fatwas on Facebook, email the holy Quran, and tweet the call to jihad."

This is the second most-mockable thing I've read in the last [...]

Historian Niall Ferguson, under fire for comparing President Obama to Felix the Cat ("not only black… also very, very lucky"), sought the counsel of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (remember him?) for a ruling on ethnography. Gates' response?