The case for MAGA imperialism
Like it or not, imperialism and colonialism are congenital to the American experiment
Colonialism
Thursday
College condemns professor who celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s death
Carnegie Mellon’s Uju Anya called the Queen the ‘chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire’
Sunday
The weakening case against museum restitution
The case for the return of the Benin bronzes seems to be unraveling
Monday
The Roman roots of ‘colony’
The Greeks are better thought of as overseas settlers, often driven by land hunger, starvation, commerce or simply the search for a better life.
Friday
The ignorance of Queen Elizabeth’s ‘anti-colonialist’ critics
In fact, a figure of such stability was essential to decolonization
Monday
Don’t cancel John Donne’s poetry
He’s being attacked as a colonialist but his work was far more complex and erotic than that
Thursday
Hoping to find happiness
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a serious novel must be in want of a theme. Paris Echo soon makes it clear that it has several. It’s about the shifting nature of history and the mysterious footprints of the past in the present. It’s also concerned with the myriad and biased interpretations that we place on past events. Another preoccupation is the ambiguities of spoken and written French. Modern Paris, the novel’s main setting, allows Sebastian Faulks to explore his themes through two main viewpoints. There’s Tariq, a precociously self-aware 18-year-old Moroccan from a middle-class family in Tangier, who comes to Paris in search of himself, his mother’s French
