Voices

Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Signs Of the Times
The example of Christ looms large over the immigration debate here.
In All Things
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
Television
Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black’
Film
I once had a homiletics professor who said not to worry too much if it appears that members of the congregation are daydreaming during your homily. A homily, he pointed out, is not an act of persuasion. You’re not up there trying to prove some point. (Or if you are, God help the people.) A goo
Television
I can’t tell whether I was actually sick the week season two of Netflix’s House of Cards dropped, or if I was glued to the couch because I just couldn’t stop watching.
Film
Jim McDermott, S.J., reviews the big, bad "Wolf of Wall Street," up for five Oscars at this Sunday's Academy Awards.
Television
Late on Sunday nights when I was a kid I used to sneak downstairs to our family TV room, where more often than not my father was asleep in his chair, the news or sitcom reruns droning on. I would do my best to slip the remote control from off his chair, turn down the volume and switch the channel. I
Television
Last year a number of critics complained that there are actually now so many good shows on television (mostly on cable) that they could no longer keep up with them all.And yet they keep on coming. Over the next few weeks in Hollywood’s small screen version of Christmas dozens of new and return
Can 'The Newsroom' help us to process the death of Travyon Martin?