Elle Dowd’s firsthand account of the Ferguson uprising
A memoir of a White moderate’s repentance
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Rescuing patriotism from nationalism
Constitutional patriotism, Steven Smith argues, is both ethical and necessary.
Sinéad O’Connor knows exactly who she is
Rememberings is the story of a pop star, protest singer, and prophet.
How Amazon became the behemoth it was designed to be
Alec MacGillis’s history of the tech giant is long-form journalism at its best.
Sludge, sludge everywhere
Cass Sunstein explores the things that waste our precious time.
Do millennials bring something new to leadership?
Three authors, one Jewish, one Muslim, and one Christian, place their hope firmly in a new generation—again.
What if forgiveness were unthinkable?
Paul Kahn’s memoir of his family is a cautionary mirror for our cultural moment.
A male scholar looks at the Bible’s women
According to James McGrath, unless Jesus was able to learn from others, he wasn’t truly human.
From Dante to Tina Fey, a romp through history with Jesus’ Beatitudes
Blessed are those who read this wise and lovely book.
A novel about baseball, wealth, and human frailty
Christopher Beha’s characters find themselves in pits, and the way out is not remotely clear.
Addressing educational inequity means loving other people’s children
Courtney Martin invites progressive parents to reckon with racial justice.
Lauren Redniss’s Oak Flat is about the conflict over sacred Apache land in Arizona
It’s also about a conflict within the order of the universe.
Can John Rawls help Christians understand justice?
Two new monographs provide religious entry points into the political philosopher’s thought.
An introduction to Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Michelle Duster situates her influential great-grandmother in the history of Black life in America.
Georgetown was built on the backs of enslaved people
Reparations for their descendants are a necessary, imperfect beginning.
