I’m Tired of the Victimhood Narrative Lidia Thorpe is not treated more harshly because she’s an Indigenous woman. In fact, if it weren’t for these two immutable characteristics, she wouldn’t be where she is today. Zoe Booth 8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
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
Bad History at the BBC A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship. Hira Jungkow 2 May 2024 · 6 min read
Why Newly Independent Countries Must Reject Radical Decolonization The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past. Jay Sophalkalyan 10 Mar 2024 · 15 min read
The Postcolonial Left's Blindness to Islamic Homophobia For Western LGBT rights activists to support Hamas's continued rule over Gaza is hypocritical in the extreme. Alexander von Sternberg 15 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Bruce Gilley vs Cancel Culture In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.” Noah Carl 30 Oct 2020 · 9 min read
Captain Cook and the Colonial Paradox Cook is best understood as a quintessential figure of the European Enlightenment, with all the consequences flowing from that, positive and negative. Adam Wakeling 25 May 2020 · 22 min read
Forget About Decolonizing the Curriculum. We Need to Restore the West’s Telos Before it’s Too Late Historically, the decolonize movement is often highly selective in which facts it chooses to highlight. Doug Stokes 3 Mar 2019 · 11 min read
'If I Want to Hold Seminars on the Topic of Empire, I Will Do So Privately': An Interview with Nigel Biggar Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched. Sumantra Maitra 7 Jun 2018 · 5 min read
