What on a break point in a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth?

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, last week's online controversy was the interview with Darryl Cooper, whom host Tucker Carlson called and I quote,

maybe the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.

In the interview, Cooper not only claimed that Winston Churchill was a psychopath, but also that he was the real villain of World War II.

The Cooper did admit that Hitler was in fact evil.

He also argued that history's most notorious villain was in fact backed into a corner by

Churchill who was bent on war from the very beginning. Thus it's Churchill and not

Hitler claimed Cooper who should bear most of the blame for the war and

for the Holocaust.

Cooper, during the interview and afterward chalked up opposition to his telling of the story

to core elements of American identity since the war that have just

been too deeply ingrained to ever be questioned.

Now typically claims like this

in the Second World War would be unworthy of a response other than perhaps a quick eye role in a dismissal.

However, this interview has already been viewed by millions

and was conducted by the most popular news personality in the United States.

Also, Cooper has since doubled down on his claims on X.

In his misrepresentation of the two most important figures of the Second World War, Cooper

obscured several basic facts. First, in a claim that reveals how his so-called extensive research

failed to consider even basic history text, he posits that historians never talk

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