Niall Ferguson is Making Sense

There are so few today who are willing to stand up and make a forthright defense of hereditary monarchy.

Yes, I understand that he’s (probably) joking, but reading this column was much like re-reading Colossus; the inclusion of things that are not like one another (constitutional and absolute monarchs), an ill-defined sense of what a monarchy is or what it does, an invocation only of the most positive aspects of the governmental form, and a blind eye turned to any negatives. I don’t know whether to bang my head against the table or to congratulate Niall on some truly inspired self-parody…