February 22, 2010

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Editorials

Current Comment
Turning Back the Clock; Tracks to Nowhere; Mardi Gras 2010
Housecleaning
Working class families should not have to abandon their dream of a new home because of the housing market debacle.

Articles

Oscar Race 2010
James Martin, SJ
America reviews the field
Adonde Vas, Mexico?
Robert Joe Stout

Halfway across the zócalo, a central plaza typical of Mexican cities, in the little city of Tlaxiaco in the southern state of Oaxaca, I stopped, my appreciation of the mid-morning sunlight

Troubled Waters
John Borelli
Catholic-Jewish relations in the United States have grown strained.

Books and Culture

Books
High-Wire Act
Gerald T. Cobb
'Let the Great World Spin' is one of the more artful works of fiction to appear in the past 10 years.
Books
Toward a Brighter Place
Kelly Cherry
Angela O'Donnell's poetry balances hard truths with a sweetness of spirit that is rare in our time.
Books
Worry, Dont Be Happy
Anna Nussbaum Keating
A persuasive critique of the cult of positive thinking.
Film
Guilt Remains
Maurice Timothy Reidy
“The White Ribbon” is a bracing argument for the ubiquity of sin. But it has little to say about redemption.
Television
Moral Convictions
Emily Brennan
'Law & Order' producer René Balcer explains why the long-running police drama is in part a 'moral mystery.'

Columns and Departments

The Word
The Face of Freedom
Barbara E. Reid
Columns
Green Shoots in the Desert
Margaret Silf
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
Letters
Letters

What You're Reading

  Oscar Race 2010
James Martin, SJ
America reviews the field