As some of you may know, Niall Ferguson engaged in a bit of gay-bashing yesterday (links below), holding that Keynes wouldn’t have cared about future generations because he was gay (the point is apparently taken from Gertrude Himmelfarb: see the Delong item referred to below). Now he has apologized. In my view no one is obliged to accept an apology: should we accept Ferguson’s and move on, as they say?
Some links:
Henry Blodgett at Business Insider was one of the first with the story.
Tom Kostigen at Financial Advisor also reported on Ferguson’s remarks.
Ferguson’s apology.
Brad Delong has the Himmelfarb connection.
Other comments by Kathleen Geier and Paul Harris (a bit of a whitewash: note that the headline and the story both emphasize the apology), at the Guardian (to which Ferguson is a contributor).
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