Johann Christoph Arnold used his stature as a public figure to inject a note of reason into the national conversation. He reached out to people of every political persuasion and faith to find common ground and, where possible, to make common cause.

Detective Steven McDonald was shot in the line of duty in 1986 and paralyzed from the neck down. Confined to a wheelchair and dependent on a ventilator to breathe, he forgave his teenage assailant. Read his remarkable story.

Short reviews of Un-American, Prison By Any Other Name, One Long River of a Song, and Hunger.