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"Judith with the Head of Holofernes"(1650s) by David Teniers the Younger. The biblical subject represents the heroine Judith, who saved the city of Bethulia by first beguiling and then beheading the invading Assyrian general Holofernes. Judith appears accompanied by her maid and displaying Holofernes’s severed head as a trophy. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

We Are All Imperialists Now

A new book explains “settler colonialism,” the voguish philosophy used to explain everything else
By Paul Berman