Nigel Biggar

Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and author of ‘In Defence of War’ (2013) and ‘What’s Wrong with Rights?’ (2020)

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Nigel Biggar is a 69-year-old white man in a suit with glasses. Zoe is a 29-year-old white woman with brown hair.

An Honest Conversation About Colonialism with Nigel Biggar: Quillette Cetera Episode 41

Zoe meets with the ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar as part of his trip to Australia.

Zoe Booth / Nigel Biggar

30 Oct 2024 · 21 min read

Benjamin Netanyahu, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Karim Ahmad Khan, Winston Churchill

Double Effect and Human Rights in War

The flawed moral reasoning of the ICC’s panel of legal experts would have approved the arrests of Churchill and Eisenhower.

Nigel Biggar

11 Aug 2024 · 6 min read

A Mixture of Pride and Shame

The left’s refusal to frame the British Empire as anything but a force for pure evil makes for effective culture-war politics. But it also makes for bad history.

Nigel Biggar

8 May 2023 · 11 min read

Podcast #209: In Defence of the British Empire

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar, author of a newly published, best-selling book that examines the mixed legacy of British colonial rule.

Quillette / Nigel Biggar

12 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice

Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility.

Nigel Biggar

27 Aug 2019 · 19 min read

Quillette Podcast 33 – Professor Nigel Biggar on Academic Outrage Mobs, What Motivates Them and How to Fight Back

Toby Young talks to Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, about his experience of being mobbed by his colleagues. They discuss what motivates academic outrage mobs and what can be done to defend free speech at British and American universities.

Quillette / Nigel Biggar

15 May 2019 · 1 min read