Heather Ann Thompson’s powerful book on the Attica prison uprising of 1971 forces us to think about how methods of incarceration are contrary to our core values.
In his farewell, Barack Obama offered nothing less than a robust defense of the communitarian values that have long been central to Catholic social thought.
Cinematic in style, leisurely in pace, and preposterously farfetched in narrative premise, "The Young Pope" is by its creator's description also about solitude.
"La La Land" pays tribute to, and revives, the glittery, glamoury musicals of the 1940s; "Silence" is a kind of breakthrough for Martin Scorsese: a new quiet.
John Kerry's argument is commonsensical: Given the threats Israel faces, does it really want to intensify conflict in the West Bank? How does that help the region?
