Weekend Beacon 4/13/25

Amid the tumult over tariffs, let's not forget a war rages on in the Middle East and terrorists are still holding innocent people hostage. Douglas Murray hasn't forgotten. His latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, has just come out. Weekend Beacon contributor Meir Y. Soloveichik has a review.

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Economic Giants Collide

The much-vaunted Special Relationship between Britain and the United States hasn’t always been so special. Leaving aside the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, economic and political relations between the world’s two leading Anglo powers have often been tumultuous. In the second half of the 19th century, for example, American protectionism clashed head-on with Britain’s free trade commitments. Tensions over the Irish question plagued relations between Britain and America well into the 1920s.

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Churchill on the Homefront

You might say that Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter, is a book about Chartwell, a house in the lovely Kentish Weald, just 24 miles southeast of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. You might also say that it is a book about Winston Churchill himself, who fell in love with the ramshackle Henry VIII-period pile and its hilltop setting in 1921; bought it the next year for £5,000; and then spent four times that sum in the next two years to make it habitable for Clementine, his wife, who had loved the house at first sight, too, but fallen right out of love with it when she (more practical than her heartstrong husband) became aware of its numerous dilapidations.

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What They Learned From the Last War

When the First World War broke out, Joseph Stalin was as far from the corridors of power as it was possible to be. Exiled in Siberia, this penniless middle-aged Marxist with a flair for bank heists and political assassinations was a failure and he knew it. Likewise, in Germany, another nondescript and undistinguished misanthrope was scraping a living together as an artist. Adolf Hitler greeted the eruption of war with ecstasy, exploiting the chaos to transfer his allegiance from Austria-Hungary to Germany and marching off to the front. In Italy, an enigmatic socialist editor also used the outbreak of war to switch identities. After initially fulminating against the fighting, Benito Mussolini quickly flipped, emerging as an impassioned cheerleader for Italian intervention. When Italy joined the fray, Mussolini was enlisted and witnessed first-hand the catastrophic conflict that he had helped embroil his country in.

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WATCH: Andrew Roberts Talks Takedown of Tucker Carlson's Favorite Historian With Piers Morgan

British historian and Winston Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts joined Piers Morgan on Monday to discuss his takedown of Darryl Cooper, the little-known pseudo historian who, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, dubbed Churchill the "chief villain of World War II."

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No, Churchill Was Not the Villain

The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on the Tucker Carlson Show that Winston Churchill "was the chief villain of World War II," which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that it is safe to disregard completely.

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80 Years After D-Day, Remember The Men Who Liberated The World

Eighty years ago, the D-Day invasion was essential in securing freedom and ensuring Christian civilization was to be saved.

Nazi-Killing Romp ‘Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Harks Back To The Bygone Era Of Fun Films

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America Isn’t The First Empire Doomed By Open Borders

Like empires before us, we have lost our cultural confidence and moorings, increasing the risk of being overrun by newcomers.

How Churchill Charmed America

"We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be," Winston Churchill famously told Parliament after the successful evacuation from Dunkirk in the summer of 1940. Great Britain, he vowed, would hold out against the Nazi menace, "if necessary for years, if necessary alone," until "in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

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