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Churchill for Today
Video: The 20th Century: Its Promise and Realization, M.I.T., 1949
18
Dec
2023
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By WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
“No technical knowledge can outweigh knowledge of the humanities.... Those whose minds are attracted or compelled to rigid and symmetrical systems of government should remember that logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man. Human beings and human societies are not structures that are built or machines that are forged. They are plants that grow and must be tended as such.”
Rumbles on the Right: The Raico Case Against Winston Churchill
27
Sep
2022
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
Libertarian disdain for Churchill stems from his 1940 premiership, without which, they believe, America would not have gone to war with Germany. Could they have lived with the consequences of a Nazi triumph? Churchill prevented that consequence. The world which resulted from his stubborn courage is better for it—and perfectly willing to accept the judgment of history.
Cambridge University Ends its Commission on Churchill’s Racism
29
Jun
2021
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By LARRY P. ARNN
To understand Winston Churchill, should we not be concerned with the truth—the actual evidence of what happened in the past?
Cambridge: “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” A Review
14
Mar
2021
3
By ANDREW ROBERTS and ZEWDITU GEBREYOHANES
A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.
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Abhijit Sarkar,
Amritsar,
Andrew Roberts,
Archibald Wavell,
Arthur Herman,
as Amartya Sen,
Bengal famine,
British Empire,
Christopher Columbus,
Churchill Archives Centre,
Churchill College Cambridge,
Clement Attlee,
Ernest Bevin,
Eugenics,
Holocaust,
Jallianwala Bagh,
John Maynard Keynes,
Lend Lease,
Leo Crowley,
Lord Linlithgow,
Lord Mountbatten,
Max Beaverbrook,
Operation Barbarossa,
Oxford Union,
Reverse Lend-Lease,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sati,
Thuggee,
Tirthankar Roy,
Zareer Masani,
Zewditu Gebreyohanes,
Cancel-Culture: We Expected Better from the National Trust and the BBC
17
Dec
2020
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By ANDREW ROBERTS
Ahistorical attacks like that of the BBC and National Trust strip away a heroic past. When a nation loses its heroes, something in it dies.
Hearsay Doesn’t Count: The Truth About Churchill’s “Racist Epithets”
02
Jul
2020
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Stop this Trashing of Our Monuments — and Our Past
15
Jun
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
If we allow our monuments and memorials and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves.
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Andrew Roberts,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Captain Cook,
Clive of India,
Cultural Revolution,
Earl Haig,
Francis Drake,
Genghis Khan,
Henry Dundas,
Horatio Nelson,
King George III,
L.P. Hartley,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Robert Baden Powell,
Robert Peel,
Shaka,
Tamerlane,
William Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
Winston Churchill the Racist War Criminal
16
Apr
2018
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By SOREN GEIGER
“It will always be a mystery why a few bombastic speeches have been enough to wash the bloodstains off Churchill’s racist hands.” This was how Shashi Tharoor, a successful and popular Indian politician, concluded his recent op-ed for The Washington Post. Tharoor began his piece with the sensational claim that Churchill was a mass murderer in the vein of Hitler and Stalin. One would expect such statements to have a mountain of evidence behind them. There is a mountain of evidence on these and similar issues, but from even the briefest expedition up the slopes one will see Tharoor’s arguments for what they are – revisionist, manufactured history.
Winston Churchill as Barbaric Monster in the Toronto Star
20
Mar
2018
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Fake News from the Huffington Post
02
May
2017
Vox’s Churchill Myths: There They Go Again
19
Feb
2016
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Winston Churchill was no saint, and it is a disservice to pretend otherwise. But he is too complex a figure to be pigeonholed by writers who criticize without considering the full picture. As William Manchester wrote, Churchill “always had second and third thoughts, and they usually improved as he went along. It was part of his pattern of response to any political issue that while his early reactions were often emotional, and even unworthy of him, they were usually succeeded by reason and generosity.”