Can sticking to the facts obscure the truth? A recent Broadway play takes a Talmudic approach to the debate.

Academic “realists” are guilty of intellectual overreach in their critique of international overreach.

Andrew Roberts’s Churchill biography confronts his subject’s central paradox: How the ardent believer in the goodness of British imperialism became the stalwart champion of liberal democracy.

Bruno Maçães’s new book is a masterful overview of China’s Belt and Road project—and a disturbing portrait of things to come.

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

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

If you want to understand what’s gone wrong in Congress, the career of Jim Wright offers a good place to start.

Orson Welles’s final film, newly completed after four decades in limbo, is a fascinating paradox: a deeply personal but radically collaborative project, which speaks as much to our time as to his.

A new documentary from an 88-year-old master casts an empathetic spotlight on small-town America, and the institutions that sustain its communal life.

A new biography of Eric Clapton tells a quintessential ’60s story—and a didactic tale of how suffering can lead to redemption.