Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 10
June 9, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Very good! The hatchet-wielder hatcheted. A striking lack of critical self-awareness indeed!
Very good! The hatchet-wielder hatcheted. A striking lack of critical self-awareness indeed!
RT by @NigelBiggar: ...Brandolini's Law. It takes an inordinate amount of time responding to things like this but it has to be done. Otherwise, by our lack of response, the originators get away with it and at least some of their their mud sticks.
...Brandolini's Law. It takes an inordinate amount of time responding to things like this but it has to be done. Otherwise, by our lack of response, the originators get away with it and at least some of their their mud sticks.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Accusations that @NigelBiggar’s Colonialism reveals a conservative ‘threatened’ actually, when examined, show that the reviewer’s ‘relentless’ attacks upon it reveal that it's the reviewer & his allies who are the ones that feel threate
Accusations that @NigelBiggar’s Colonialism reveals a conservative ‘threatened’ actually, when examined, show that the reviewer’s ‘relentless’ attacks upon it reveal that it's the reviewer & his allies who are the ones that feel threatened. They want to control the narrative...
RT by @NigelBiggar: ... and want to shut challenges down. My sympathies go out to @NigelBiggar who in this detailed response has clearly has to waste many hours classifying and replying to wilful misrepresentations, inaccurate accusations and ridiculous sm
... and want to shut challenges down. My sympathies go out to @NigelBiggar who in this detailed response has clearly has to waste many hours classifying and replying to wilful misrepresentations, inaccurate accusations and ridiculous smears. Which brings me to…
RT by @NigelBiggar: Thank you for a great book.
Thank you for a great book.
"Political bias, smearing by association, strawmen, careless reading, misrepresentation, misunderstanding, unsupported assertions, an absence of open thoughtfulness, and a striking lack of critical self-awareness": Nigel Biggar rebuts Alan Lester: https://
"Political bias, smearing by association, strawmen, careless reading, misrepresentation, misunderstanding, unsupported assertions, an absence of open thoughtfulness, and a striking lack of critical self-awareness": Nigel Biggar rebuts Alan Lester: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
[image error]RT by @NigelBiggar: This morning I cycled out from Ieper to Kemmel to say hello to my adopted son, 2nd Lieut.Michael Wall from Carrickhill, Portmarnock, Co. Dublin. He was only 19 but will be forever young. Till the next time Michael.
This morning I cycled out from Ieper to Kemmel to say hello to my adopted son, 2nd Lieut.Michael Wall from Carrickhill, Portmarnock, Co. Dublin. He was only 19 but will be forever young. Till the next time Michael.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Long before I got into late antiquity, I was working on early German Romanticism. -- & it's of course worth remembering that many Romantics were much-intrigued by late antiquity & early Christianity.
Long before I got into late antiquity, I was working on early German Romanticism. -- & it's of course worth remembering that many Romantics were much-intrigued by late antiquity & early Christianity.
June 8, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Is there a future for Romanticism? Happy to be giving a seminar for Hungarian high-schoolers, tomorrow - a first for me - with Dr Eric Hendriks. Title, "The New Romantics: Nietzsche, the Christian Legacy, & the Future of Europe".
@Hendr
Is there a future for Romanticism? Happy to be giving a seminar for Hungarian high-schoolers, tomorrow - a first for me - with Dr Eric Hendriks. Title, "The New Romantics: Nietzsche, the Christian Legacy, & the Future of Europe".
@HendrKim @MCC_Budapest @InstituteDanube
RT by @NigelBiggar: The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves. @robert_lyman praises Adventurers by David Howarth for his rich portrait of the improbable rise of the East India Company https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-2...
The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves. @robert_lyman praises Adventurers by David Howarth for his rich portrait of the improbable rise of the East India Company thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-…
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