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articles and early access to Colette social events. And this week my interviewee

is Oxford theology makes the case that contrary to modern progressive dogma, the legacy of the British Empire

has a lot of good mixed in with the bad.

This is something that you're not supposed to say these days, of course, which is why Bigger's original publisher,

Blumberry, got cold feet on this book and canceled its publication

indefinitely before Harvard Collins stepped in and ushered it

onto the bestseller lists.

I spoke to Professor Bigger last month over in and as you'll hear in some of the bestseller lists.

I spoke to Professor Bigger last month over Skype, and as you'll hear in some of the

outtake material that I posted at the end of the credits, our interview coincided with

an interesting development in British politics.

So one of the problems we have with this issue, among a variety of problems, is the problem

of definition.

When you talk about colonialism or imperialism, defined broadly, it effectively sweeps up almost

all of history.

The Roman Empire began with the imperialist march of what we now call Romans throughout the Italian peninsula.

How do we distinguish what is called colonialism now from the grand sweep of history which is just one big litany of people's invading each other and conquering one another.

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