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Nov 29, 2024 | 
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu | Winston Churchill |Richard Langworth
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, we asked the opinions of twelve leading authorities: What do you consider the most profound passage Winston Churchill wrote or said? The great war speeches, we suggested, were too obvious. What did he say that especially rings true? What applies to all peoples and all times? We asked each contributor for up to 300 words; one gave us just six. No two selections were alike, although two came from the same speech.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu | Andrew Roberts |Richard Langworth
Winston Churchill was the first topic at the 2024 History Reclaimed Conference. Historian and biographer Andrew Roberts, Lord Roberts of Belgravia, reflected on Churchill’s recent reputation and the work of critical historians. The video is linked here by kind courtesy of History Reclaimed and the author. Toward the end of his remarks, Andrew Roberts beautifully describes the scene at one of Churchill’s most memorable orations.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Richard Langworth
Better late than never? We are mesmerized watching a five-year-old Netflix morality series called Madam Secretary, which follows a secretary of state who is skillfully portrayed by Téa Leoni. Remember the rich lady searching for her son on dinosaur-infested Isla Sorna in Jurassic Park III? (Sam Neill/Dr. Grant: “Please stop shouting on that bullhorn, Mrs.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu | Victor Davis Hanson |Richard Langworth
In a recent and now widely seen Tucker Carlson interview, a guest named Darryl Cooper casually presented a surprising number of flawed theories about the Second World War. He focused his misstatements on the respective roles of Winston Churchill’s Britain and Adolf Hitler’s Germany —especially in matters of the treatment and fate of Russian prisoners, the Holocaust, the systematic slaughtering of Jews, strategic bombing, and the nature of Winston Churchill.
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May 24, 2024 | 
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu | Andrew Roberts |Richard Langworth
Anna Reid, A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention into the Russian Civil War (London: Basic Books, 2024), 400 pages, $32, Amazon $27.45, Kindle $19.95, paperback $33.05. This article first appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 30 October 2023 and is reprinted by kind permission of the author and newspaper.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Richard Langworth
People always ask me: “So what’s the solution?” What do I know? Surely, however, it’s time to forget the eight two-state solutions that have never worked. What about a three-state solution: Gaza to Egypt, West Bank to Jordan (the 1967 borders)? Then they say: “But they don’t want them back!” The answer is Churchill’s idea of the only things that work in the Middle East: “force and bribery.” Whatever it costs us to bribe them is less than a war, and we back the deal with air power.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
spectator.org | Richard Langworth
“In a Baltic Nation, Fear and Suspicion Stalk Russian Speakers,” announced The New York Times on December 18th: “In response to the war in Ukraine, Latvia has targeted residents with Russian passports as part of efforts to combat Moscow’s influence.” The Times tells of two Russian-speaking residents who were told they must leave the country. The first was born in Latvia 63 years ago.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
spectator.org | Richard Langworth
“Law, language, literature — these are considerable factors. Common conceptions of what is right and decent, a marked regard for fair play, especially to the weak and poor, a stern sentiment of impartial justice… these are common conceptions on both sides of the ocean among the English-speaking peoples.” —Winston S.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
spectator.org | Richard Langworth
“Sometimes I miss the good old days when Donald Trump could be shocking,” writes Gail Collins in the New York Times on Nov. 15. “It’s really hard to imagine something he could say now that would throw us for a loop.” Collins and much of the media nevertheless seemed thrown for a loop after Trump’s remarks on Veteran’s Day. “[H]e celebrated the men and women who’ve fought for American democracy by promising to ‘root out’ his liberal opponents,” Collins wrote.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu | Richard Langworth
Law professor and radio show host Hugh Hewitt has written an arresting column in the Washington Post: “Fiction has even more value when the real world is in crisis.” Reading novels while the world hangs in the balance: Quite a few great leaders did. There must be good reasons. Mr. Hewitt offers four:First, fiction can keep anxious minds from chewing themselves to bits…. Second, reading can give a sense of proportion, which our distracted age needs most urgently….
