TAI’s Richard Aldous hosts Andrew Roberts for a discussion of his bestselling new biography Churchill: Walking with Destiny. (A lightly edited transcript from our podcast.)

At the heart of the unrest in France is a blackout of rational thinking—and it’s driving the country to destruction.

Democracy skeptics are getting a wider hearing than ever these days. But on five crucial issues that ail us, the evidence shows that some democracies do better while almost all non-democracies do not.

A new book explores the artwork of Winston Churchill, and finds surprising resonances between his artistic legacy and his political one.

How did a statue of Andrew Jackson end up at the center of Lafayette Park? There is an answer, but a story goes with it.

U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights would neither enhance Israel’s security nor serve American interests.

A top Putin foe dishes on threats to press freedom from Moscow, the Kremlin’s long arm in Africa, and what Russia makes of Donald Trump.

A new book offers a helpful primer on Beijing’s deepening relationships in the Gulf.

On December 23, TAI Founding Editor Adam Garfinkle spoke with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart about the movie The Front Runner, a dramatization of his “hell week” during May 1987. Below is a lightly edited transcript of that conversation.

The inquiries into one scandal-ridden Estonian bank branch reveal the deep failures of post-financial crisis governance—and the serious risks that money laundering poses to the financial system.