People fear the impact of difficult books. They aren’t entirely wrong.
Politics & Society
We need to stop talking about “good” and “bad” neighborhoods
Both Sheryll Cashin and Yelena Bailey investigate the scandalous inequalities between city neighborhoods.
Reading Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic novel with Christian eyes
The irony of banning a book about how we can’t escape our history.
Lawrence Jackson’s memoir tells a story of location shaped by race
Baltimore—from Frederick Douglass to Freddie Gray—informs his whole journey.
Doing church on social media is not like standing in the public square. It’s more like putting ourselves under a form of sovereignty.
Lisa Sharon Harper’s memoir of the legacy of slavery
Fortune gives a wrenching account of intergenerational trauma and its costs.
Be like water: clear, humble, persistent, and restorative.
The end of endless wars?
Andrew Bacevich and Samuel Moyn each seek a reckoning on how the United States uses its military abroad.
The infiltration of online parenting spaces began as a slow burn. During the pandemic, it’s picked up speed.
It’s not just about an overall partisan advantage.
Unmasking and slaying our Promethean desire for mastery
How could a Buddhist country have one of the worst human rights records in the world?
How harm reduction is winning the war against drug overdoses
Maia Szalavitz tells the story of a strategy that replaces criminalization with empathy.
As the Soviet Union crumbled, the West sent French fries.
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