Though the British Empire officially dissolved decades ago, its legacy is still woven into the fabric of many nations across the globe. From language and law to education systems and infrastructure, ...

A measured defense of the Western colonial legacy argues that the British empire did more good than evil. By Tunku Varadarajan Updated Sept. 1, 2023 4:41 pm ET Share ...

It’s true that British colonies were spared warfare on the scale seen in French Indochina and Algeria, or Portuguese Angola and Mozambique, but the official mythology has been shown to be ...

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen ...