James Heartfield's guest appearances

James Heartfield

Aufhebunga Bunga

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

John McAfee

Glenn Greenwald

Sean Jacobs

Aaron Bastani

Angela Nagle

Michael Tracey

William Davies

Alexander Zevin

Leigh Phillips

Quinn Slobodian

Bill Mitchell

Anna Khachiyan

Benjamin Moser

Michael Brooks

DAVID ADLER

OwlTail

Nigel Biggar

The British Empire and Us: a civilised disagreement with Nigel Biggar and James Heartfield Over the last five to ten years, factious arguments about the British empire, about toppling the monuments that mark it, about making reparations for it, and about to teach it in schools, have swept through our public discourse. This is a relatively new thing. We didn’t used to talk about the British empire so much and when we did, it was in a more positive and nostalgic light. Today there is a daily drip drip of the wrongs of empire. In this episode, Tiffany is joined by ethicist Nigel Biggar,   the author of Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, and  James Heartfield  author of Britain's Empires: A History - 1600-2020 for a discussion about the rights and wrongs of empire. Biggar aims to set the record straight on empire, to defend it, and to show why not every critique is right. Heartfield is an anti-imperialist who has long condemned empire but finds himself surprised and disquieted to have won the argument. They examine what the British empire was in its different iterations; ask whether is was racist and to what extent violence was essential part of it. (For this part they refer to Caroline Elkin's superb Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire which argues that it was); reflect on the role of history and whether it can and should be moral, and, finally, - this is a longer than usual episode -  discuss why the turn towards seeing everything in the past is not as radical as it first appears.  

The British Empire and Us: a civilised disagreement with Nigel Biggar and James Heartfield Over the last five to ten years, factious arguments about the British empire, about toppling the monuments that mark it, about making reparations for it, and about to teach it in schools, have swept through our public discourse. This is a relatively new thing. We didn’t used to talk about the British empire so much and when we did, it was in a more positive and nostalgic light. Today there is a daily drip drip of the wrongs of empire. In this episode, Tiffany is joined by ethicist <a href="https://nigelbiggar.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Nigel Biggar</a>,   the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colonialism-Moral-Reckoning-Nigel-Biggar/dp/0008511632" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning</a>, and <a href="http://www.heartfield.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> James Heartfield</a> author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-Empires-History-1600-2020-Studies-ebook/dp/B0BMPR7QJ4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Britain's Empires: A History - 1600-2020</a> for a discussion about the rights and wrongs of empire. Biggar aims to set the record straight on empire, to defend it, and to show why not every critique is right. Heartfield is an anti-imperialist who has long condemned empire but finds himself surprised and disquieted to have won the argument. They examine what the British empire was in its different iterations; ask whether is was racist and to what extent violence was essential part of it. (For this part they refer to Caroline Elkin's superb <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legacy-Violence-History-British-Empire/dp/184792106X " rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire </a>which argues that it was); reflect on the role of history and whether it can and should be moral, and, finally, - this is a longer than usual episode - discuss why the turn towards seeing everything in the past is not as radical as it first appears.

The British Empire and Us:  Nigel Biggar and James Heartfield disagree

In which we debate the 'equal opportunities revolution': how race &amp; gender has changed, in the workplace &amp; beyond

In which we debate the 'equal opportunities revolution': how race &amp; gender has changed, in the workplace &amp; beyond

/31/ Woke Neoliberalism ft. James Heartfield