I let thoughts percolate and events develop before writing each week. This week, there were so many ideas coming forward that it was at first difficult to choose. But three things came together to point me in the direction that…
Not to get faux-erudite; Tocqueville was required reading when I was in school, and a blessed requirement that was. I returned to the famous concluding peroration after reading about the negotiations the president views as the necessary end to the…
Eighty years ago this month, the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to Soviet control at the infamous Yalta Conference held at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. Forty years later, President…
Conventional histories usually mark the beginning of the Cold War to the year 1946 or 1947. But in truth the Cold War began during the Second World War. Great Britain welcomed Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union as an ally against Germany…
With Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, the bust of Winston Churchill has reappeared there, once again highlighting the divide over Churchill by Republican and Democratic leaders in this country — a divide that began with President Obama when…
Churchill at War: A four-part Netflix documentary starring Christian McKay as Winston Churchill premiered on Dec. 4. From Gaza to Ukraine, United Nations to United Europe, our legacy is the war that made us what we are. Winston Churchill had…
Blenheim Palace is a sprawling mansion near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, built between 1705 and 1724 to commemorate the Battle of Blenheim won by a combined Anglo-Dutch-Austrian army led by John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, over Louis XIV’s army…
On a single day in late November 1943, Winston Churchill addressed two notes from Cairo, one going to both his Deputy Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, and his Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, and one to Morrison alone. Churchill was writing on…
The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, was this last weekend. This year, I felt its cleansing power palpably. My reacquaintance with the power of Yom Kippur came decades ago. I see it as part of the providential nature of this…
