This brings me to Nigel Biggar’s delayed book, Colonialism: A moral reckoning, published this month by Williams Collins. Today, it seems, “the West” must learn to hate itself or be damned. The Triumph of the West never did justice to the part played by Protestantism in Western thinking. The publication of Biggar’s book suggests that we have not entirely lost our faith in our cultural heritage. There is much to repent of — the list of imperial crimes is long — but that is surely the point.

Source: The Times February 17, 2023 00:36 UTC