History doesn’t repeat, Mark Twain said, but it sometimes rhymes. Sometimes the rhymes are so compelling that they cry out for comment. President Biden’s speech on August 31, 2021, on the end of the war in Afghanistan was, for me, one of those times. It recalled to me a speech given on June 4, 1940, […]
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Part I is here: http://bereansatthegate.com/churchill-on-collectivism-and-the-limits-of-politics-part-i/ Winston Churchill was an outspoken critic of Communism as well as the milder Socialism that was a political force in Britain. He understood the difficulties presented by human nature for these political doctrines in a non-academic, wonderfully common sense way: human nature being what it is, Communism and Socialism are […]
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Winston Churchill was an outspoken opponent of Russian Communism from the beginning, not only because he saw it as a threat to the British Empire, although that was true, but because he perceived that its principles were inimical to healthy human society. In 1920, for example, he wrote an article for the Illustrated Sunday Herald […]
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Weekly Sage #16: Hannah Arendt
22 Feb 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Hannah Arendt “The philistine’s retirement into private life, his single-minded devotion to matters of family and career was the last, and already degenerated product of the bourgeoisie’s […]
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When I accepted a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study in Australia, I did not know exactly what to expect, having no experience with the land of kangaroos and koalas, nor any graduate-level training in history. The wonderful experience has brought many surprises, on which I will perhaps write more someday, but two of the most […]
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Churchill, History, and Heroism
30 Nov 2018
November 30, 2018: Today is Sir Winston S. Churchill’s 144th birthday, a day for remembering. Churchill has been gone for 53 years. Yet, because of a recent surge of film and television treatments, most notably Darkest Hour (2017), in which he was brilliantly portrayed by Gary Oldman—as well as kerfuffles on Twitter about the legitimacy […]
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