U.S. media is often clueless about foreign-language journalism funded by its own government. That is a topic worth shining some light on.

How to resolve America’s monument wars? The experiences of Macedonia and Russia suggest some unlikely lessons.

The shrillness, vulgarity, and shamelessness on display in the Kavanaugh spectacle will only get worse—because it is in the self-interest of our bottom-line-obsessed media to let it get worse.

There is nothing wrong about our current conception of human rights that cannot be cured by the best elements of our own tradition.

The memory of 20th-century totalitarianism causes many in the West to conjure up images of state-run media using heavy-handed propaganda to indoctrinate the masses in a particular ideology. This is no longer the main threat.

A new book on the changing face of Hollywood is smarter on commerce than on culture.  

Let’s not roll out the red carpet as Saudi Arabia enters the movie business.

How the “Xi change” in China is causing an invisible earthquake.

Five discomfiting aspects of the media spectacle that now accompanies every mass shooting.

A lesson from Nigeria, on balancing the blessings of modernity and the celebration of an ancestral past.