Thursday, March 5, 2026

THURSDAY — LEADERSHIP, HISTORY & POWER

“From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

— Winston Churchill

Eighty years ago today, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Missouri, naming the Cold War divide that would define a generation. And, in one of history’s better punchlines, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died on this very same date just seven years later. The man who named the threat and the man who embodied it, bookending March 5th like a geopolitical mic drop. For leaders, the takeaway is timeless: the walls you build and the walls you ignore both have expiration dates, so invest your energy in what you’re building toward instead of what you’re merely defending against. To learn more, Check out the articles Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech—March 5, 1946 and Death of Stalin.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad