Christmas picks

Features in the December 9, 2015 issue

Detail from Nativity (2006), by Brian Kershisnik

Eleven writers make their selections:

This article appears in the December 9, 2015 issue.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The “great American game” is played to win and to exclude. Lamar’s halftime show made the case for turning our attention to something better.

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

The vice president’s mangling of the Christian ordo amoris is just a smokescreen for the largest deportation operation in American history.

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