At the heart of the class combat in "Show Me a Hero" is fear, a fear that is made worse by the fact the black, brown and white residents of Yonkers know very little about one another.
When we enter into the vulnerability of meeting another person in all of her/his humanity, we enter into the beautiful mystery of friendship and romance that has fired the human heart for centuries.
Eighty years have come and gone, and the Social Security Act, while derided by some—and cherished by many—is still here, helping the Ida May Fullers of our time.
We might hope that in tandem with the pope’s recognition of the horrors of the first two atomic bombs, there is a concurrent abhorrence of tens of millions of human souls brutalized and murdered by four totalitarian political regimes.