More insanity from Niall Ferguson.

Couple of years of imprisonment, constant abuse and
occasional torture would make wonders for his worldview.

Every regime has these kind of "independent" supporters
who whitewash the regime´s crimes. Usually they are delusional
people whose view of the regime has little to do with it´s
reality; they attach to it their own hopes and dreams, which
usually have little to do with the regime´s reality and the
goals of it´s leaders.

One could say that Niall Ferguson is a modern, academic
version of Ezra Pound(1885-1972). Niall Ferguson´s United
States of America has as much to do with reality that
Ezra Pound´s Italy had with the real one.