Thinking Class
Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast about history, culture, civilisation, and the moral and political challenges facing Britain and the West. Expect depth and clarity over headlines and hot-takes.
Hosted by John Gillam, the show features serious conversations with historians, academics, and thinkers including David Starkey, Peter Hitchens, Roy Baumeister, Nigel Biggar, Eric Kaufmann, Robert Tombs, Alan Macfarlane, and others.
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#077 - Driss Ghali - On Reverse Colonialism: How France Was Colonised
Driss Ghali is a political author and speaker. Driss was born in Morocco and educated in Europe. He graduated from prestigious French universities and spent a lot of time in a corporate career focused on high-tech companies. Driss is an intellectual and observer of human nature as it is: ugly and splendid at the same time. Since 2017, he has written books about Violence and Identity. He frequently appears in French media to talk about immigration, diversity, the Middle East and French politics. One of his books has been translated into English titled, A Counter-History of French Colonization.
In this conversation, Driss and I think out loud about the nature of French colonization, how the conventional narrative portrays France as a genocidal country, how his grandfather's time as a colonial soldier influenced his perspective on the relationship between France and its colonies, why there is significant rift between immigrants and native French and what drives it, why France is experiencing reverse colonization, the significant cultural differences between Islam and Christianity are significant, the potential for civil war in France, why open discourse about immigration and identity is necessary and how the future of France depends on addressing these issues and much, much more.
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