Francois Ruffin is an odd avatar for populism—in part because he hails from the very class he is critiquing.

Climate change is a real and serious threat. How to tackle it, however, is far from obvious.

There’s nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, wrote Kurt Vonnegut of his book about the firebombing of Dresden. So why are we still reading it a half-century later?

In his new memoir, Michael Brendan Dougherty rages against the atomizing effects of modern liberalism—and finds comfort in the binding ties of family, nation, and Church.

Berlin’s split with Washington on Iran long predates Trump—and it speaks to a dangerous naivety in German strategic thinking.

From Nietzsche to Mann to Merkel, German culture has long had a soft spot for Russia.

More than 75 years after its release, Orson Welles’s classic holds up as a visionary social prophecy.

Both ends of the political spectrum have become increasingly cavalier about debt. They may live to regret it.

How some of the most interesting ideas an editor has never make it into print.

The only way to protect the long-term viability of the best aspects of the Kushner plan is to kill the plan.