The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.

While leaders in the U.S., U.K., and France spout nationalist rhetoric, Angela Merkel has emphasized core democratic values in response to the coronavirus.

“A Hidden Life” is a strangely simplistic movie about good and evil.

What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?

Despite its setting in Nazi Germany, Taika Waititi’s movie never risks actually disturbing its audience.

The author of Hiroshima showed the world the realities of American power.

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

“Abel and Cain” is about memory, how it’s made and remade, sequelized and turned into kitsch.

A TNR roundtable discusses “The Bells,” the fifth episode in the final season of the HBO fantasy series.

Headlines about Nazis could distract from a more pressing issue: current tensions within the EU.

Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.

Elisabeth Asbrink’s new book looks for lessons both in counterfactuals and in post-war history.

Jennifer Egan disconnects from the fractured nature of modern life.

Christopher Nolan's latest offering is high on patriotic schmaltz and low on meaningful commentary.

Surviving after World War II—for victims and victors

The moral burdens of living under communist rule in Eastern Europe