Spring 2006
ARTICLES
Leaving Race Behind By Amitai Etzioni
Our growing Hispanic population creates an opportunity
On the Outside Looking In By Nancy Honicker
Paris and its banlieues in November 2005
Onward, Christian Liberals By Marilynne Robinson
Christianity’s long tradition of social justice
What Jesus Did By Garry Wills
Forget about Christ as secular sage, historical figure, or even as Christian
Two Strangers, Three Stories By James McConkey
All the lonely people, and where they come from
Shouldn’t there be a word...? By Barbara Wallraff
The holes in our language and how we fill them
The Idea of Bombay By Gyan Prakash
Bollywood epitomized modernity for a boy in a distant province. As an adult, he sees a troubled city
Henry James vs. the Robber Barons
By Gorman Beauchamp
Why Italian art should stay in England, where it belongs, and not fall into the hands of foreigners
How to Write a Memoir By William Zinsser
Be yourself, speak freely, and think small
ARTS
Snake-Oil Music By Malcolm Jones
Medicine shows and other homemade entertainments
Thinking About Work By Nan Stone
Peter Drucker and why we should know
what the boss is up to
POETRY
What Philosopher
By Vicki Hearne
Second Draft and Sparrow By James Longenbach
Morning and Reading Akhmatova By Karl Kirchwey
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BOOKS
Why Read George Eliot?
By Paula Marantz Cohen
Trouble and Glory
How Martin Luther King became the defining figure of his era
By Richard E. Nicholls
Strong Enough for Solitude
A religious order’s millennium of self-denial
By Charles Trueheart
Sight Unseen
When we look and when we avert our eyes
By Margaret S. Livingstone
Foreign Aid Failures
What works and what doesn’t work
By Carol Lancaster
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Amman
The War Next Door
By Ingrid McDonald
Commonplace Book:
Good Cheer
Collected by André Bernard
Works in Progress
Can you dance to it;
hands-on;
brain studies;
faith in numbers;
slow song;
seeking the source;
railway to heaven
The Reader Replies
Findings
Birdman of America
By Robert Wilson
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