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An Olive Branch
Charles Murray's 'Taking Religion Seriously' is not, ultimately, a serious exploration of Christian belief.
James Chappel
Leo & Liturgy
Despite the hopes of Catholic traditionalists, Pope Leo has not undone Francis’s limits on the Latin Mass, but other questions about liturgy remain on the synodal table.
Rita Ferrone
'Of This World'—American Charisms
In the second episode of our special podcast series, ‘Commonweal’ contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with Molly Worthen, author of ‘Spellbound.’
Another Requiem in Minneapolis
PoliticsImmigrationDonald Trump
The personal misery of a police state is hard for language to capture.
Patricia Hampl
Cruel and Indiscriminate
InternationalLatin AmericaPoliticsDonald Trump
For decades, U.S. sanctions have been crippling Venezuela—and the poor, not the politicians, have paid the greatest price.
Joy Gordon
Alex Pretti, Martyr
ReligionPoliticsImmigrationDonald Trump
By his spontaneous example, Alex Pretti called all Americans, but especially American Christians, to account.
Terence Sweeney
The Little Hours of Delaney Hall
ReligionPoliticsDonald TrumpImmigration
A prayer service outside a Newark DHS detention center was a reminder that, for Christians, every prison and every tyrant is a temporary thing.
Kevin Gallagher
Leo the Manager
Pope Leo XIVVaticanReligion
Leo possesses the mind of a mathematician and canon lawyer. He has the makings of an effective manager—even of a sprawling organization like the Church.
Heidi Schlumpf
The Dangers of Doctor Bot
Artificial IntelligenceTechnologyHealth Care
AI touches on the deepest longing of professionals to be foolproof. But it cannot replace the judgment of a real doctor.
Ronald W. Dworkin
The Damage Has Been Done
InternationalEuropeDonald TrumpPolitics
Whatever comes of Trump's mad campaign to take Greenland, it’s the island's residents who will bear the brunt of it.
Morten Høi Jensen
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Dialogue Before Doctrine
Modern Catholic social teaching is now suffering the same decline as befell the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the twentieth century.
Timothy Kirchoff
EditorialDonald TrumpPoliticsImmigration
State of Siege
Five years after whipping up a loose army of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Trump has deployed a well-funded paramilitary force to execute his authoritarian agenda.
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Waugh Warned Us
Donald Trump bears an uncanny resemblance to Rex Mottram, the businessman and opportunistic British politician in Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Brideshead Revisited.’
Paul Baumann
BooksPolitics
Princeps & Monsters
Tom Holland’s new translation of Suetonius’s ‘The Lives of the Caesars’ comes at a time when the psychology of tyrants is on all of our minds.
Jared Marcel Pollen