Charles Trueheart

Charles Trueheart, a Scholar contributing editor, is author of Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict, winner of the 2024 Douglas Dillon Award for the best book on American diplomacy.

Jessica Mitford on the British late-night talk show After Dark; August 20, 1988 (Wikimedia Commons)

Making Trouble

A British aristocrat’s leftist noblesse oblige

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 1, 2025

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 2, 2024

Head of the State

How the FBI’s founding director ruled from the shadows

By Charles Trueheart | Thursday December 1, 2022

Making the List

Finding the right page required centuries of experiment

By Charles Trueheart | Monday March 21, 2022

Visible Man

A writer whose early speculative fiction made him famous

By Charles Trueheart | Monday November 15, 2021

Things Left Behind

A writer’s one-sided conversation with a ghost

By Charles Trueheart | Monday May 17, 2021

Family Secrets

A writer’s personal quest to expose a mass murderer who escaped punishment

By Charles Trueheart | Monday February 1, 2021

La Havilland

The movie star became a fixture in Paris, where she lived for half her lifetime

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020

Creeping Illiberalism

A bleak account of the West’s slide toward tyranny

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020
A man in a suit with a red tie and sunglasses stands next to two soldiers in U.S. uniform. They are filmed by a third man.

The Difficult Diplomat

A highly flawed man who brought peace and controversy

By Charles Trueheart | Monday June 3, 2019
Jessica Mitford on the British late-night talk show After Dark; August 20, 1988 (Wikimedia Commons)

Making Trouble

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 1, 2025

Barbarity at the Bataclan

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 2, 2024

Head of the State

By Charles Trueheart | Thursday December 1, 2022

Making the List

By Charles Trueheart | Monday March 21, 2022

Visible Man

By Charles Trueheart | Monday November 15, 2021

Things Left Behind

By Charles Trueheart | Monday May 17, 2021

Family Secrets

By Charles Trueheart | Monday February 1, 2021

La Havilland

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020

Creeping Illiberalism

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020
A man in a suit with a red tie and sunglasses stands next to two soldiers in U.S. uniform. They are filmed by a third man.

The Difficult Diplomat

By Charles Trueheart | Monday June 3, 2019

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