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Losing the Enlightenment Remarks at the Claremont Institute's annual Churchill Dinner By Victor Davis HansonPosted November 20, 2006These remarks were delivered on November 10, 2006 at the Claremont Institute's annual dinner in honor of Sir Winston Churchill. (To applause.) Good evening, and thank you very much for the honor of the Statesmanship Award at this annual Claremont Institute dinner in memory of Sir Winston Churchill—a tribute conceived in the name of a great man, bestowed by a great institute, and honored by great past recipients. Tonight I would like to talk of our current crisis—not yet a catastrophe, but...

The following speech was delivered at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska.In remembering why we have come to support our troops today, it is worth taking a moment to reflect on something most of us never think about: our extraordinary luck in being Americans. We are, in a sense, lottery winners. There are something like 6.3 billion human beings currently living on the planet. Assuming that most of us were born sometime in the last half century, this works out to a roughly 1-in-20 chance of being born in the United States of America. There are plenty of other places...

WASHINGTON, Feb 27, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In an address entitled "God Bless America!" given to the prestigious Houston Forum, British author and Parliamentarian Winston S. Churchill today praised the Iraq disarmament policy of President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The grandson of the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, Churchill surprised his audience, proclaiming, "I have a confession to make to you: it was my Grandfather, Winston Churchill, who invented Iraq! He did so in 1921, in his capacity as British Colonial Secretary. That year he convened and chaired the Cairo Conference...