Welcome back to “America Jeopardy!”, our annual beach-reading homage to the popular game show and everybody’s favorite Catholic magazine.

We asked our readers to reflect on times when they have seen or recognized examples of racial prejudice in their own lives.

The events of 2020 show that Americans still struggle to achieve social justice, writes Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia in a July 4 reflection. Yet we can take note of what we have survived so far.

Most of the people I know are cone-shaped. Always protruding.

Two recently published books from Oxford University Press address the variegated and multifaced character of sin in the New Testament.

The coronavirus epidemic claimed more than 120,000 lives by late June, and its effects have been felt in communities across the country—but not equally.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler's new book is both a rigorous and laudable effort to cure American Catholics of the illusion that our desires have no history.

Ross Douthat explores the cultural, economic and political torpor that he thinks has emerged in the United States over the last half-century.

If the pandemic and the swell of protests have shown that Americans are still capable of heeding the call of their better angels, it has also exposed the flaws and deficiencies of our political leadership.

His vivid firsthand experiences on the job as a police officer are recounted extensively in Adam Plantinga's new book.