Hitting Pause on Artificial Intelligence

For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?

By Richard Brown

May 10, 2023

Race

Religion

Politics

Article

The Possibility of a Just War

Tobias Winright discusses the tension between just war theory and Pope Francis's teachings of nonviolence in light of the war in Ukraine.

May 10, 2023

Article

True Allegiance?

The coronation might be a mess of entangled traditions, of shame as well as glory, but it is also an opportunity for Charles to consecrate himself to service.

By Austen Ivereigh

May 9, 2023

Foreign Affairs

History

Article

King Charles’s Traditionalism

King Charles’s philosophical views are even more anachronistic than the coronation ceremonies in which he just took part.

May 9, 2023

Article

Changing Our Minds About Time

In her latest book, Jenny Odell challenges the very idea of time management.

May 7, 2023

Must Reads

Politics

Is American Democracy Coming Apart?

Those who would follow him, Jesus tells us, must love their enemies. Those words issue a challenge for all Americans interested in redeeming democracy’s promise .

By James T. Kloppenberg

April 4, 2023

Religion

AI, Policy, & Faith

How should faith leaders and policymakers respond to the rise of AI? A bishop and a White House official sit down for a dialogue on algorithms and human dignity.

By John P. Slattery

April 12, 2023

Religion

Famine and the Living God

East Africa is in the midst of the worst drought in living memory. Devastation here will not be the result of some natural evil so much as our own lack of care.

By Karen Kilby

April 4, 2023

Culture

Have Men Become Culturally Redundant?

Men in the industrialized world seem to have lost their groove. We need a new vision of masculinity adequate to our current social and economic circumstances.

By Brendan Ruberry

April 10, 2023

Books

When Literature Stood on Its Own

"I loved Steinbeck's letters so much I want others to know about them too, for they recall an era when literature stood on its own."

By Jo McGowan

February 21, 2023

Collections

Anti-Semitism & the Catholic Church

Commonweal writers reflect on the atrocity of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church.

By The Editors

April 17, 2023