A Conversation with Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford

Toby Young talks to Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, about his experience of being mobbed by his colleagues. They discuss what motivates academic outrage mobs and what can be done to defend free speech at British and American universities.

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[anyakirby]

Lots of admiration to both speakers for standing up to bullies, for their and our sanity.
I read ‘Colonialism’ a few months ago, found it very interesting and informative, recommend it to my friends.

As a Soviet Union ‘survivor’ I value freedom of speech very much, speaking up for it every chance I can. As a private piano teacher, I can afford this luxury and not to be scared of being deplatformed.
More respect to people who take risks! 👏👏👏

[ffredjones]

I recently read Colonialism, a moral reckoning, while on holiday in Kenya. Fascinating book made all the more interesting by being in a modern post-colonial nation. Anyone who has any interest in colonial history should give it a go. Huge respect for Nigel Biggar.

[nickdawson]

Signing an open letter that is intended to damage a colleague is an easy and lazy way to show one’s virtue.

[DouglasHPlumb]

Academics often have great understanding and reason, but it is glaringly apparent that they have almost no capacity for judgment outside their narrow range of expertise. Judgment cannot be learned from a book. I've seen gutless academics with a lower capacity for judgment regarding morality and fairness than any child I played with when I was a child. They have been all about warping reason and logic to be in line with sick and warped theosophy. They need to be supervised by ordinary working people who are known to play well with others.

[markkavanagh]

They're winning; Roxy Tickle was declared a woman today.

[elis]

Just came across one of Pete Boghossian, street epistemology featuring an gaggle of university teachers ganging up on him for posing hypothetical questions. Some universities clearly don´t like their orthodoxy questioned in any way.

[erikschiegg]

The game is called groupthink. Most often, they have to wait until professors die that science can progress.
Don't try to prove to _them, _ science does not care about groupthink, political ettiquette or ideology.
Especially in theology they have to rip out the believer out of the student, befor they accept him.
If you study and appy theology seriously, you would have achieved esp capabillitiey, you coud beat with the holy spirit. You can approach the supernatural that theology is in a scientific attitude, exploring the supernatural world of miracle makers and parasitic demons.
You can't progress in theology without progressing spiritually towards I am who I am. You can't progress in theory without progressing in practicing in dayli spiritual fight. Learn the 36 Chambers of the holy Spirit!