Tag: Quillette
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Double Effect and Human Rights in War
11 August 2024. Nigel for Quillette. The flawed moral reasoning of the ICC’s panel of legal experts would have approved the arrests of Churchill and Eisenhower. When, in June, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defence minister over their conduct in Gaza, the Conservative government objected that the…
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Phenomenon vs. Icon
July 2019 saw the publication of “Biggar vs Little Britain: God, War, Union, Brexit and Empire in Twenty-First Century Conservative Ideology,” by Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London. In his essay Drayton mounts an attack on what he calls “the Biggar phenomenon”. While Drayton’s essay can be found in Stuart Ward and Astrid Rasch’s…
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Academic Outrage Mobs
15 May 2019. Quillette Magazine associate editor and Quillette Podcast host Toby Young recently spoke with Nigel Biggar about his experience of being mobbed by colleagues, criticized and denounced for his Ethics and Empire research project. Young and Biggar discussed the motivations for academic outrage mobs and considered responses that might defend against threats to free speech at universities. Please click on the following…