Columnists and politicians decrying the decline of the West can't seem to define what it is they're defending. The entire concept was developed for a very particular historical moment.

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

The country has reverted to de facto one-party rule. But there are signs that Japan's democracy is not dead yet.

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.

At the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.

The mysterious appeal of a really good shark movie.

Why "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is not the book we need in the Trump era.

In 'The Last Days of New Paris' avant-garde artists fight the Nazis.

Before publishing a new edition of Adolf Hitler’s book, this French publishing house will set the record straight.

The controversial theory of "climate mobilization" says we should.

Americans have largely forgotten the anti-Communist sentiment from decades past.

How a group of divers found a piece of history.

Concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was tried for a crime he didn't commit, before his true role in the Holocaust was exposed.

A Jewish refugee in occupied France, Moritz Scheyer was sheltered by nuns.

Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence.

The Nazis created a wholesome, nature-loving image for Hitler at his mountain retreats. We've never fully dismissed it.