This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology,

the University of Oxford.

Nigel Bigger.

Nigel is the center of a column by Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution to look at the question

of colonialism. Colonialism is now being used as derogation, directed against anyone supporting and directed against anyone

opposing. You understand it's a charge that's thrown out there not to meant not meant to be

answered. It's aggression why where does it

come from and what do we know about the controversy surrounding and

eventually slapping over the people talking with

Nigel Bigger once upon a time who has been involved in this colonial dispute at least since 2017.

Peter, a very good evening to you.

Nigel Bigger is a distinguished professor emeritus of Oxford University.

He's also a man who's written articulately about colonialism.

Why is he opposed by so many of his colleagues at Oxford, so many scholars who have signed letters against him?

What is it that he did that it so offends them?

Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, his Cardinal Sin, if you forgive the term,

is he challenged orthodoxy among political theorists, international relations,

professors, all scholars who fancy themselves on the right side of the history.

The great, one of the great conceits in the academy today

is that the West, Western civilization, but especially the British Empire, the United States, and

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