June 2011 - Richard M. Langworth

Churchill’s “Make a Life” Non-Quote

24 June 2011 Comments 0 Comments

Next to the various “success” quotes, one of the most popular Churchill misquotations that bedizen the Internet is: “You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.”

This cropped up in several poorly researched Churchill quote books and was taken up in a 2005 TV ad by Lockheed Martin. No one ever lists a reference, because there is none: It cannot be tracked to Churchill and is an old saw put in his mouth to make it more interesting. Listed with other “red herrings” in Churchill By Himself.…

“The Truth is Great, and Shall Prevail”: Bill Rusher 1923-2011

24 June 2011 Comments 0 Comments

I" know we have a tendency to be discouraged about how things are going—although in our time, you know, they haven't gone all that badly. Free market economics, which I wouldn't have given you a plugged nickel for at the end of World War II, is now so popular that even Red China calls its policy "Market Socialism," whatever that is. Still there is much that is worrisome. I'm sure Churchill, if he were here, would encourage us: Never Despair and Never Give In." —Bill Rusher

Murder (“The West”) Incorporated

8 June 2011 Comments 2 Comments

“Is World War II Still ‘the Good War’?” by Adam Kirsch. The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 27 May 2011. Adam Kirsch, a senior editor at The New Republic, offers a thoughtful piece of deconstruction which dredges up every major Churchill critic of the past five years, all in one handy if verbose article. As a sampling of the Churchill fever swamps, it is unsurpassed.

The question we are asked to consider is whether World War II was really a “good war.” War is hell, which is why western democracies like Britain and France spent six years trying to avoid it.…