Niall Ferguson's pseudo-scholarship ignores the fact that Karl Popper's entire career was based on debunking the myth of historicism Gibbon and Spengler espouse

Niall Ferguson's pseudo-scholarship ignores the fact that Karl Popper's entire career was based on debunking the myth of historicism Gibbon and Spengler espoused. Today nobody takes the latter two seriously, while Popper is still standing tall.