{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_wtzf2llpft3gw6iiglwq","title":"Captain Cook: the great explorer turned ‘syphilitic racist’","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/captain-cook-the-great-explorer-turned-syphilitic-racist-wtzf2llpft","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_wtzf2llpft3gw6iiglwq","seq":275109,"kind":"article","title":"Captain Cook: the great explorer turned ‘syphilitic racist’","url":"https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/28/captain-cook-the-great-explorer-turned-syphilitic-racist","summary":"New Zealand’s cultural life is troubled by the ghosts of empire, figures and events that persist or return to haunt the present. Sometimes it seems these ghosts have been placated and are fading from view, but then they re-emerge as troubling figures demanding attention, spurring debate, bringing the worlds of empire and colonialism back to […] The post Captain Cook: the great explorer turned ‘syphilitic racist’ appeared first on Newsroom .","published":"2026-09-27T16:00:00Z","seen":"2026-09-27T16:54:48Z","lang":"en","country":"NZ","source":{"id":"kite-newsroom-co-nz-82f2de","name":"newsroom.co.nz","domain":"newsroom.co.nz","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q48795745","name":"Newsroom","type":"website","country":"NZ","designations":["news website"]}},"via":"kite-newsroom-co-nz-82f2de","topics":["readingroom","excerpts"],"authors":["Tony Ballantyne"],"entities":[{"id":"Q7324","name":"James Cook","type":"person"}],"story":"st_wtzf2llpft3gw6iiglwq","category":"arts-culture-entertainment","category_p":0.33000001311302185,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.6899999976158142,"political":0.20999999344348907}]}