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Ayaan Hirsi Ali [a] (Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born 13 November 1969) [1] is a Somalian-born Dutch-American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician. [2] [3] [4] She is a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced marriage, honour killing, child marriage, and female genital mutilation. [5]
Ferguson met journalist Sue Douglas in 1987, when she was his editor at The Sunday Times. They married in 1994, and went on to have three children. [188] In February 2010, Ferguson separated from Douglas and thereafter started dating Ayaan Hirsi Ali. [189] [190] Ferguson and Douglas divorced in 2011.
In her remarks at the first conference, Ayaan Hirsi Ali suggested that the crisis of confidence comes from the disconnection of democracies from their founding stories and values, that “Western civilisation is like a cut flower – and cut flowers die.” [17] Baroness Stroud, as CEO of the group, had previously said this weakness in the West ...
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When Niall Ferguson, one of our best intellectuals, lends aid and comfort to such arguments, I feel compelled to confront, contest, and hopefully correct it—even if I take little pleasure doing so.
2016: Niall Ferguson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali [8] 2017: Robert Zimmer, President, University of Chicago [9] 2018: Mitch Daniels, President, Purdue University [10] 2019: José A. Cabranes, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [11] 2021: Dr. Gordon S. Wood, Professor of History Emeritus, Brown ...
Infidel is a 2006 autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-Dutch activist and politician. Hirsi Ali has attracted controversy and death threats were made against Ali in the early 2000s over the publication of the book. [1] [2]
The University of Austin was conceived in May 2021 when venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, St. John's College president Pano Kanelos, scholar Niall Ferguson, and journalist Bari Weiss met in Austin, Texas. [12] The proposal was publicized six months later in an article by Kanelos in Weiss's Substack newsletter Common Sense (now The Free Press ...