About this episode
Nigel Biggar discusses six things that should be better known, touching on ethics, empire, and cultural issues.
Nigel Biggar discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Nigel Biggar is Emeritus Regius Professor in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Christ Church. He founded in Oxford the MacDonald Institute for the study of Ethics and Empire. He is now a Fellow of St Cross College Oxford, and an author, lecturer and broadcaster throughout the English-speaking world. After many acclaimed academic books, he wrote and published the bestselling Colonialism. His new book is The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win The Culture Wars, which is available at https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-new-dark-age-why-liberals-must-win-the-culture-wars--9781509568321 . Terence Malick's 1998 film, The Thin Red Line https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/feb/26/film-of-the-week-the-thin-red-line Helmuth James von Moltke (1907-45), anti-Nazi martyr https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/19666775-last-letters-the-prison-correspondence-between-helmuth-and-freya-von-mo Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833): exemplar of empire https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/sir-john-malcolm 'Mass graves' discovery in grounds of an Indian Residential School at…
People in this episode
Host: Ivan Wise
Guest: Nigel Biggar
Topics covered
- ethics
- empire
- colonialism
- culture wars
- history
- film
- racism
Keywords
- Nigel Biggar
- ethics
- empire
- colonialism
- culture wars
- The Thin Red Line
- mass graves
- World Values Survey
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Oxford, Christ Church, MacDonald Institute, St Cross College Oxford, World Values Survey
Books & works: The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win The Culture Wars, Colonialism, The Thin Red Line
Places: Britain
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