In the weekend episode, VDH and Sami discuss the narrative surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Trump declaring Antifa a terrorist organization, California’s Proposition 50, Robert Redford’s legacy in film and politics and Winston Churchill’s heroism while Britain took on Nazi Germany alone. Share This
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: encouraging polls, Russian interference, US Steel’s ownership, Hochul aide an agent for CCP, Brazil threatening Elon, Israeli hostages and deterrence, and the absurd suggestion that Churchill caused WWII to breakout. Share This
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk about California living and leaving, a world and war without Churchill, and in absentia due to dementia, who is running the Biden administration. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public
“Certainly we do not need a disproportionate response to Herr Hitler that initiates a cycle of violence on both sides. We need to tamp down the rhetoric.” by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media I have nothing to offer you, except blood, sweat, and arugula. Winston Churchill, well before he became prime minister in May
Winston Churchill never once flinched in the face of the Third Reich. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Fifty years ago this Saturday, former British prime minister Winston Churchill died at age 90. Churchill is remembered for his multiple nonstop careers as a statesman, cabinet minister, politician, journalist, Nobel laureate historian, and combat
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The interim agreement negotiated by the Security Council and Germany with Iran is a serious advance toward what Winston Churchill called the Munich agreement: “a total and unmitigated defeat” and a “disaster of the first magnitude.” Nothing in the agreement guarantees that Iran will fulfill its promises, or that inspectors will be allowed
Military history tells the story of human nature at its great heights and terrible lows. by Bruce S. Thornton // Defining Ideas In the latter years of World War I, Winston Churchill met with the novelist and poet Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon was a winner of the Military Cross––he single-handedly routed 60 Germans and captured a trench
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage The death of Margaret Thatcher will no doubt generate much deserved recognition and discussion of her historical significance. Share This
by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review A review of The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America by Bruce S. Thornton. (Encounter Books, 2011 pp. 283) Share This