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40 years after ‘The Day After’
Global Crises

40 years after ‘The Day After’

The film remains a devastating reminder that nuclear deterrence is a strategy that can and will fail someday

All-quiet
Europe

'All Quiet on the Western Front' is horror in splendid color, but is it enough?

The latest cinematic telling of the classic story succeeds in conveying the futility of world war, even if we are about to unlearn that lesson.

'Munich' is a lost opportunity to rewrite the wrong lessons of appeasement
Europe

'Munich' is a lost opportunity to rewrite the wrong lessons of appeasement

The film fails to make the broader strategic critique: that states that are in no position to fight, shouldn't — or risk losing it all.