Charles Trueheart

Charles Trueheart is a Scholar contributing editor and former director of the American Library in Paris. His book about Vietnam in the Kennedy years, Diplomats at War, is forthcoming.

Whores de Combat

In search of adventure and engagement

By Charles Trueheart | Tuesday March 11, 2014

The Debacle Before the Disaster

At Dien Bien Phu, the French got a lesson the U.S. would take two decades to learn

By Charles Trueheart | Monday March 1, 2010

Sign Language

At their best, pictograms tell us clearly where to go and what to do; at their worst, things can get interesting

By Charles Trueheart | Saturday December 1, 2007

A Seductive Spectacle

The languid bazaar of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet still beckons 50 years later

By Charles Trueheart | Friday June 1, 2007

Organized Violence

In the last century, where did warfare end and genocide begin?

By Charles Trueheart | Friday December 1, 2006

Strong Enough for Solitude

A religious order’s milennium of self-denial

By Charles Trueheart | Wednesday March 1, 2006

Paris: The Death of Derrida

By Charles Trueheart | Wednesday December 1, 2004

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

Bungle in the Jungle

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 4, 2017

Cruel Spring

By Charles Trueheart | Wednesday December 10, 2014

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