A new generation of “revisionists” is trying to make Churchill into an anti-hero, or to erase his memory and lessons entirely. As direct memories of Churchill fade with the passing of the World War II generation, political scientist and author Steven Hayward will review Churchill’s permanent legacy and consider how it still offers—and will always offer—timeless perspectives on how the world works.
Given the recent attacks on Churchill from figures on both the left and the right, this topic should allow for a lively, wide-ranging question and answer session after his presentation. Many thanks to the UAA Department of Political Science for co-sponsoring this talk.
About the Speaker
Steven F. Hayward is a fellow of the Public Law and Policy Program at Berkeley
Law. He was previously the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Visiting Professor at
Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy, and was the inaugural
visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado at
Boulder in 2013-14. From 2002 to 2012 he was the F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow in
Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and
has been a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco since
1991.
He writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington
Post, National Review, the Washington Examiner, the Claremont Review of
Books, and other publications. The author of seven books including a two-volume
chronicle of Reagan and his times entitled The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the
Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980, and The Age of Reagan: The Conservative
Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989, and the Almanac of Environmental Trends. His
most recent book is Patriotism is Not Enough: Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, and the
Arguments That Redefined American Conservatism.
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