George Walden’s “Tony Underwood” trilogy reveals truths only fiction can tell.

City Opera’s revived production of Candide is a bleak, and hilarious, musical comedy—equal parts light opera and brutal savaging thereof.

It’s hard to think of a worse fit for the job of National Security Advisor than Michael Flynn—and that assessment has nothing to do with any of his alleged contacts with Russian officials.

War movies can only be as serious as the wars they depict—and only as serious as we Americans are about fighting them.

Can increasing the flow of information into North Korea lead to regime change?

Clement Attlee was a much better politician, and a much more learned man, than popular memory gives him credit for.

Yes, Citizen Kane is great, but that’s not the half of it. The more Orson Welles was forced to improvise and budget down, the better he got.

How the history of atheism in America illuminates the country’s religious, and irreligious, future.

Two television dramas about the advertising business—one recent and the other from the 1980s—show us how much American society has changed.

David Simon’s under-appreciated Show Me a Hero offers hope that racial divides can be mended, and past injustices overcome.