Rethinking Churchill: The Cost of Britain's 'Great Man'

Younger critics are re-examining Churchill; not for his prejudices, but for what he sacrificed.

A troublesome figure, Churchill is widely disliked by members of the Global South—many of whom now call Britain their home—for his role in the Bengal Famine, his racial views, and his embodiment of colonialism.

But for the descendants of the supposed victors themselves, the man once hailed as a national hero is now praised with growing hesitation; not be…