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Hello and this is a show for you. Hello and welcome to trigonometry.

I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantin Kishin.

And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today is a professor of political science at Portland State

University. Bruce Gillie, welcome to Chigonometry.

Thank you, thank you for having me.

It is great to have you here.

We obviously have met before, but other people may not know who you are.

Tell everybody, who are you, how are you, where you are,

what has been your journey through life that brings you here?

Well I'm a political scientist as you said and I just was a journalist before I left

journalism and went into the academy and ended up here in

beautiful Portland since I'm from Western Canada my wife from California so

this was more or less than midpoint.

And I work in comparative politics, international relations,

international development issues, and I'm best known because I wrote an article in 2017 called The Case for Colonialism, which apparently I was not supposed to write because apparently that's offensive and there is no case for colonialism.

So I was cancelled in the sense that the journal that published that

article in 2017 was facing death threats to an editorial staff so I

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