https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/06/12/why-intellectuals-like-genocide/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:14:02 -0400<![CDATA[A few years ago, the Australian historian Keith Windschuttle published a book called The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. The burden of this excellent work (reviewed here in The New Criterion by the eminent historian Geoffrey Blainey) is to show that the received wisdom about the founding of Australia&#8211;that it involved the European genocide of the native Aboriginal population&#8211;is a myth. Europeans did kill some Aborigines&#8211;some 120 Tasmanian Aborigines, for example. But then, the natives killed a like number of Europeans. So it goes.]]>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:20:21 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2008/06/12/why-intellectuals-like-genocide-n114894