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March 18, 2022

The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics

Bruce Gilley

Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject of countles......

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February 25, 2021

The Minjung Millenarianism of Bandy X. Lee

Bruce Gilley

In declaring President Trump mentally unfit to hold public office and a “mass killer,” Yale Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee violated the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Me......

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May 30, 2018

The Case for Colonialism

Bruce Gilley

From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." 

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March 5, 2021

Diversity Training, or "How to Throw Fuel on the Fire": An Interview

Bruce Gilley

Professor Gilley describes his thoughts on a Washington legislative bill that would require public institutions of higher education to provide faculty, staff, and students with DEI training.

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June 22, 2020

Re-Founding a Nation: Jamestown Year 1

Bruce Gilley

To change the future, radicals must capture the past.

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September 30, 2019

Was it Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?

Bruce Gilley

Professor Gilley examines the state of slavery in Africa and throughout the British Empire at the now infamous date of 1619. 

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