Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 40
April 14, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Part 5: Having appointed its most unqualified president ever on diversity grounds, Harvard is now planning how to maintain race-based admissions without saying so. Are Pinker & Co. willing to take on diversity ideology in their "worksho
Part 5: Having appointed its most unqualified president ever on diversity grounds, Harvard is now planning how to maintain race-based admissions without saying so. Are Pinker & Co. willing to take on diversity ideology in their "workshops, lectures, and courses"?
RT by @NigelBiggar: 8pm on 4th of May @SwindonArtsCent is @andrewdoyle_com discussing his book The New Puritans. Join us to find out more.
Double tix Doyle & @nigelbiggar @ 6.30pm= £15
Tickets: http://swindontheatres.co.uk
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8pm on 4th of May @SwindonArtsCent is @andrewdoyle_com discussing his book The New Puritans. Join us to find out more.
Double tix Doyle & @nigelbiggar @ 6.30pm= £15
Tickets: swindontheatres.co.uk
@waterstones.swindon
#SwindonLitFest2023 #TheNewPuritans
RT by @NigelBiggar: I have bought it - sounds like an interesting read - my family were empire people - my grandfather used to get very irritated by the anti imperial mood sweeping the UK - whilst the bad was very bad - Biggar sounds like he acknowledges t
I have bought it - sounds like an interesting read - my family were empire people - my grandfather used to get very irritated by the anti imperial mood sweeping the UK - whilst the bad was very bad - Biggar sounds like he acknowledges the good
RT by @NigelBiggar: Biggar’s discussion of it is excellent, but he is right (with unrelated events, like Orissa & the Opium Wars) to criticise the way free trade became axiomatic. It did lead to famines. The Bastiat quip, “where goods don’t cross borders,
Biggar’s discussion of it is excellent, but he is right (with unrelated events, like Orissa & the Opium Wars) to criticise the way free trade became axiomatic. It did lead to famines. The Bastiat quip, “where goods don’t cross borders, armies soon will” is simply untrue.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Amusing and helpful review of @NigelBiggar Colonialism by @_HelenDale
-What did the Brits ever do for us? | The Spectator Australia https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/...
Amusing and helpful review of @NigelBiggar Colonialism by @_HelenDale
-What did the Brits ever do for us? | The Spectator Australia spectator.com.au/2023/04/wha…
RT by @NigelBiggar: Future historians will one day write about the phenomenon of radicals commandeering mass-member organisations because the rank-and-file are too distracted and disengaged to vote them out
Future historians will one day write about the phenomenon of radicals commandeering mass-member organisations because the rank-and-file are too distracted and disengaged to vote them out
RT by @NigelBiggar: Further some Indian grain merchants were hoarding grain to get better prices. The same was happening just before the Assam earthquake in 1950.
Further some Indian grain merchants were hoarding grain to get better prices. The same was happening just before the Assam earthquake in 1950.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Biggar does not deny this for a moment. What is important is that he explains why. That is why I quoted that passage.
Biggar does not deny this for a moment. What is important is that he explains why. That is why I quoted that passage.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Yes, there's lots of South Africa in it. The Speccie only gives you 1000 words, so I had to shoehorn a lot in!
Yes, there's lots of South Africa in it. The Speccie only gives you 1000 words, so I had to shoehorn a lot in!
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