3 January 2024.
“Nigel Biggar – one of our leading theologians but also, thanks to the intolerance of others, a leading controversialist – tackled one aspect of the culture wars with Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, published by William Collins after the original publisher backed out. Biggar confronts those who “condemn [British] colonialism as a whole for its racist, rapacious, exploitative, violent ‘logic’, talking of ‘colonialism’ and ‘slavery’ in the same breath as if they were identical.” He does so brilliantly, his book uncomfortable reading for bigots”
– Simon Heffer
“Nigel Biggar and I don’t agree on everything, but I will say without hesitation that he is one of the most fearless of academics in confronting the woke plague corrupting higher education throughout the Western world. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning is the latest example of Biggar’s sturdy scholarship, readability, and courage—a book that cost Oxford’s Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology Emeritus endless grief when les enfants terribles of the Cancel Commissariat took exception to this thoughtful and balanced assessment of an important historical phenomenon. The focus is on the British Empire, but the lessons are applicable to other experiences of colonization for both colonizers and colonized”
– George Weigel
“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning examines, in a deeply original way, the effects and complications of British colonialism. At a time when colonialism is taken as a prima facie evil, Biggar makes clear its shades of gray, as well as its legacies with which the world lives”
– Howard Hussock
“Colonialism by Nigel Biggar provides a provocative counter view on British history, acknowledging the cruelty and violence perpetrated by the British Empire while calling for a more balanced reading of history that acknowledges the good as well as the bad”
– Matthew Lesh
“Do not read Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning as an apologia for Empire because it isn’t. This cancelled and then rescued book calls for a balanced judgment and intellectual honesty”
– Sudeep Paul