Nine Intellectual Virtues
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
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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.
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.
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.
Podcast #209: In Defence of the British Empire
Listen onSpotify 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.
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.
Quillette Podcast 33 – Professor Nigel Biggar on Academic Outrage Mobs, What Motivates Them and How to Fight Back
Toby Young interviews Nigel Biggar on academic outrage mobs, their motives, and ways to protect free speech at universities.