A collection of 11 posts
Why did Britain negotiate a treaty with Māori chiefs in New Zealand but claim Australia as terra nullius—“land belonging to no one”?
Philosopher and programmer Sean Welsh talks with Zoe Booth about AI, colonial history, and why scepticism is the best guide through both technology and politics.
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 meets with the ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar as part of his trip to Australia.
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.
The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past.
For Western LGBT rights activists to support Hamas's continued rule over Gaza is hypocritical in the extreme.
In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.”
Cook is best understood as a quintessential figure of the European Enlightenment, with all the consequences flowing from that, positive and negative.
Historically, the decolonize movement is often highly selective in which facts it chooses to highlight.
Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched.