Q & A

The Green Party wants to ease stress with a four-day week. Churchill's methods would handle the problem effectively - and far more economically.

I’ve been slogging through the William Manchester Churchill trilogy, The Last Lion. How is Hillsdale’s eight-volume Winston S. Churchill by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert different?

Churchill’s refusal to indulge in criticism of America was more than prescient tactics; it embodied a deep understanding of, and belief in, “The Great Republic.”

Was it the Conservatives, the BBC, or the press? They all wished Churchill would go away, but an organized conspiracy of silence against him is hard to establish.

De Gaulle annoyed Franklin Roosevelt even more than he did Churchill. Roosevelt deplored what he saw as a statist, a Bonapartist and an imperialist. His conclusions were not entirely accurate.

At Bradford, Yorkshire on 14 March 1912, Churchill made a contentious speech defending Irish Home Rule. Defying his Unionist opponents, he concluded: “If the Government and the Parliament of this great country and greater Empire is to be exposed to menace and brutality [for any] sinister and revolutionary purpose—then, gentlemen, I can only say to you let us go forward together and put these grave matters to the proof.”

Was Churchill really that good of an artist? What made him a great leader and what was his greatest accomplishment? Richard M. Langworth discusses these highlights of Winston Churchill and his reputation.

Churchill’s bibliographer, Ronald Cohen, surveys Churchill’s output for his best-seller titles. The answer, we learn, is not so surprising.

“BW”—for Barbara Lutyens Wallace—lived a life of sacrifice notable even in that vanished, valiant generation, and provides some tips for Churchill researchers.

Richard M. Langworth, senior fellow for the Churchill Project at Hillsdale College, provides some recommended reading for the postwar period of Churchill's life.

“Dreams of the future are blurred but…London will be in danger and in the high position I shall occupy, it will fall to me to save the Capital and save the Empire.” —WSC, 1891

There is a story that when Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in World War II, he responded “Then what would we be fighting for?” Although this quotation is not present in his writings, Winston Churchill valued the arts, especially painting and sculpture, as an essential component of national life.