The long pilgrimage of David Brooks has led him to explore Christianity and embrace a life lived in tension.
Bill McGarvey
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Bruce Springsteen looks for mercy and deliverance in new album ‘Western Stars’
Springsteen has created a sprawling sonic landscape that, in its best moments, feels like the soundtrack to a film you would love to see.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
We’re sacrificing our kids’ mental health to the college admission industrial complex
For high school seniors, existential angst about what schools they will get into, how much aid they will receive and how much debt they will need to take on to get a degree has become a national rite of passage.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Green Book’ and the stories Americans like to tell ourselves
The controversial film is a sweet lullaby when what is really needed is a wake up call.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
HBO’s “The Price of Everything” holds a mirror up to the modern art market
Nathaniel Kahn’s “The Price of Everything” features a veritable Greek chorus of modern-art market luminaries.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Proud and impoverished in the ‘Heartland’: an interview with Sarah Smarsh
Heartland is a chronicle of lives and places; a story of the women and men on the lower end of the working class in rural Kansas who nurtured, challenged and continue to inform Sarah Smarsh’s story.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
How should Christians respond to the Kavanaugh hearing?
A conversation between Simcha Fisher and Bill McGarvey, two columnists for America. They discuss the Kavanaugh hearing and more via email.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Sacha Baron Cohen searches for America. Don’t be shocked by what he finds.
As an agent provocateur, Cohen’s new show had an impact before it even aired.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway magic trick
In “Springsteen on Broadway,” song, story and storyteller merge.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Can a college course teach students how to date?
Kerry Cronin’s classes at Boston College tackle what has apparently become an abstract and rarefied topic on college campuses.