Winston Churchill

The “Unnecessary War” 80 Years Later

America could have prevented World War II and, with benevolent wisdom and fraternal strength, can forestall another.

How Conservatives Learned to Love the Soviet Union

The right-wing embrace of Vladimir Putin as a dictator and enemy of the freedoms Americans hold dear is a stunning rebuke to decades of struggle against Soviet tyranny

Reviving the Art of Political Rhetoric

The lost art of political oratory must be recovered to save not only our politics, but the soul of America

Christian Realism & Ukraine

There should be no equivocation about where America stands.

American Christians Should Lose Their Aversion to Seeing the US as an Empire, and Empires Generally

Despite the very real foibles of British and American imperialism, the Anglo-American world order has consistently been preferable to the totalitarian alternatives

Whiggish Churchill & Tucker Carlson etc

Seeing Churchill as icon of Anglo/American liberal order, some postliberals including Christians want to demote if not dethrone him

No, Churchill Did Not Instigate WWII Against Hitler

Despite historian Darryl Cooper’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Hitler and the Nazis were unquestionably the real culprits behind the Second World War

Learning from Lawrence of Arabia on His 136th Birthday

On the 136th birthday of T.E. Lawrence, American foreign policy has much to learn from one of Britain’s greatest heroes

NATO’s Future is Churchillian, Not Wilsonian

The future of NATO must be defined by Churchillian realism and not Wilsonian idealism