Is Biden Too Old?

Democrats may be on a bridge to nowhere.

By Dominic Preziosi

Go to

William Barber’s Life of Struggle

Godard’s Sly Subversion

Migrants in the Mediterranean

The Pope & the Americans

Latest

Feature

Memory and Movement

The Buglisi Dance Theatre’s annual show is an embodied liturgy in remembrance of 9/11.

By Cecilia Whalen

September 11, 2023

Article

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

Has the United States learned anything from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan? The same assumptions that led us into those conflicts have now led us to Ukraine.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

September 7, 2023

Article

Making Sense of Levitating Saints

The testimonies of witnesses to impossible events vivify the past. They allow us a glimpse of the world as some of those who lived long ago actually saw it.

September 6, 2023

Article

How We Misremember MLK

The reason King is so frequently misread has less to do with his Black identity than with his Christian identity.

By Vincent Lloyd

September 5, 2023

Article

A Toolkit, Not a Blueprint

Democracy is not just one regime type among many: it is a non-negotiable requirement of human equality.

By Max Foley-Keene

September 4, 2023

Article

David James Duncan’s ‘Sun House’

David James Duncan’s newest novel, more than twenty years in the making, explores the lives of four characters in a unique ‘Eastern Western’ style.

By Jessie van Eerden

September 2, 2023

Must Reads

Politics

Child Labor Isn’t in the Past

We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

August 6, 2023

Religion

Opus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity

In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.

By Daniele Palmer

August 4, 2023

Culture

Barbie the Existentialist

Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.

By Santiago Ramos

August 25, 2023

Books

Is Ethics Like Math?

A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory.

By Frank B. Farrell

August 17, 2023

Collections

Pope Francis at Ten Years

A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.

March 12, 2023

© 2023 Commonweal Magazine. All rights reserved. Design by Point Five, NY. Development by Deck Fifty Design.