As one of the most polarizing figures in modern American politics, Newt Gingrich has racked up a huge inventory of pungent criticism of both his ideas and his character — much of it from his fellow conservatives. But before becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill was often dismissed in similar terms.

Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

Liberals sadly disdain Sir Winston Churchill, though he ought to be as much of a hero for liberals as he is for conservatives.

What are the president's strengths and weaknesses as a supreme commander?

Nietzsche's framework for understanding the use and abuse of history are helpful in reflecting on some of the contemporary uses to which Churchill’s memory is now put.

Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

The subject of Winston Churchill and the Jews is not a trivial or peripheral subject, but it is difficult to treat this delicate matter in isolation, as the virtues and defects of these two books demonstrate.

At the end of World War II, the overwhelming question for the British was what to do about India.