British Empire

The Enduring Geopolitical Tragedy of India’s Partition

Recent terror attacks in India are the latest manifestation of the enduring geopolitical consequences of the 1947 partition

Britain Chooses Decline by Ceding Sovereignty of Chagos Islands

By ceding control of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, Britain is enabling Chinese influence in one of the most strategically important parts of the world

No, Churchill Did Not Instigate WWII Against Hitler

Despite historian Darryl Cooper’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Hitler and the Nazis were unquestionably the real culprits behind the Second World War

The Absurdity of Anti-Israel Narratives

Ideology has a way of making people unreasonable, but Israel-haters on college campuses take this tendency to an extreme

Canada as America’s Post-liberal Counterpart 

For most of Canada’s history, it has represented a Tory, conservative, anti-American revolutionary counterpart to the United States

Reckoning with Colonialism

Nigel Biggar’s new book is a spirited, well-argued defense of British history against its popular progressive detractors.

A Moral Assessment of the British Empire: It’s Complicated

Was the British Empire, all things considered, as evil as some say?

Why a Coronation Matters

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars

Cancelling Churchill: Did Sir Winston Cause the Bengal Famine?

Attempts to tear down the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill are really just attempts to tear down the legacy of the West itself.