Brexit, Trump and the value of resistance

At a time when both America and Britain are beset by political chaos, Joe Wright, Gary Oldman and Winston Churchill provide a timely holiday message: resistance isn’t futile.

In the throes of Brexit, Britain appears to be conducting a ‘belated do-over’ to lose the European continent that was averted by war-time prime minister Winston Churchill, pictured addressing the House of Commons in 1941. Photograph courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

December 20, 2017

There is a moment in Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour—a film that chronicles Winston Churchill’s literal tug of war between appeasement in the face of the overwhelming force of Nazi Germany and doubling down on British resolve—in which three words slice through nearly 80 years of history....

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