Abraham Lincoln Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Guelzo on Robert E. Lee: “To Err on the Side of Absorbing Society’s Defaulters”

15 November 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Allen C. Guelzo, Robert E. Lee: A Life (New York: Knopf, 2021), 608 pages, illus., $35, Kindle $15.99. First published in The American Spectator, 9 November 2021. Please consider subscribing (if you don’t already), to this ad-free website. You will receive regular notices of new articles as published. Just fill in your email in the right-hand panel under “subscribe & follow.” Your email address is given to no one and remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

“Who’s that man on the horse?”…

…I asked my father at a young age. “That’s Lee—he led a Southern army in the Civil War.”…

Defcon 1: The Urgent Defense of Churchill’s Name and Legacy

16 June 2020 Comments 0 Comments

Case for the defense: “If we allow our monuments and statues and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, and claims of people being offended by our built environment that has been around for decades and sometimes centuries, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves as a nation. We are on the way to a society of competing victimhoods, atomized and balkanized into smaller and smaller communities, which ironically enough is something racists want too.” —Andrew Roberts

Defense of the good

The Hillsdale College Churchill Project has joined many other groups and individuals in defense of the good.…

Mr. Ivison: May we proclaim Trump no Churchill without slurring the latter?

8 June 2020 Comments 1 Comment

Mr. Ivison is right. And wrong.

John Ivison in Canada’s National Post makes the point: “Donald Trump is no Winston Churchill, and the comparison is ludicrous.” He refers to a June 3rd statement by the President’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. (She compared Trump’s appearance at St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House to Churchill visiting the blitzed East End in 1940.)

I think from a purely historical point of view we can all agree with him. In 1940, Churchill wrote, “There was a white glow, over-powering, sublime, which ran through our Island from end to end.”…