Month: September 2015

The Dallying Duke of Marlborough

The Dallying Duke of Marlborough

This his­tor­i­cal cor­ner of the Web is exer­cised over the mis­quotes and tall tales about Win­ston Churchill that clut­ter the Internet—by every­body from Wash­ing­ton quar­ter­back Robert Grif­fin III to assort­ed authors and politi­cians (see “Churchillian Drift”).   

They range from RG III’s recent “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak” (nobody knows who said that, but Churchill didn’t) to the fic­tion that Alexan­der Flem­ing twice saved Churchill’s life.

But here’s an amus­ing exam­ple of Churchill him­self destroy­ing a Churchill myth—about his ances­tor John Churchill, First Duke of Marl­bor­ough. Ref­er­ence is to the ear­ly pages of Marl­bor­ough: His Life and Times, vol.

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Hillsdale’s Online Churchill Course

Hillsdale’s Online Churchill Course

Hills­dale Col­lege offers a free, not-for-cred­it, online course, “Win­ston Churchill and States­man­ship.” The six-week course is taught by Hills­dale Col­lege Pres­i­dent Lar­ry P. Arnn. It exam­ines the life, lessons and lega­cy of Sir Win­ston. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­tact onlinecourses@hillsdale.edu.

This course is part of the bat­tery of new pro­grams offered by The Churchill Project for the Study of States­man­ship, which I am hon­ored to serve as senior fel­low. I warm­ly rec­om­mend this illu­mi­nat­ing, stim­u­lat­ing, and above all accu­rate, free course because it’s a mini-edu­ca­tion on Churchill’s states­man­ship, con­duct­ed by an inde­fati­ga­ble schol­ar and a friend of forty years. …

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