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Hoover’s America

Beverly Gage's biography of J. Edgar Hoover challenges the traditional historiographical perception of Hoover's role in America's "long national nightmare."

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A Reflection for Palm Sunday

A faithful response to God’s call to evangelize is to sharpen our faces and our communities like flint—not as weapons, but as tools of creation and sustainability.

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What Do Movies Remember?

New films by Steven Spielberg and Charlotte Wells offer two profoundly different views of film’s relationship to memory.

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Macron’s Gamble

Furious protests have emerged over Macron’s pension reform, rammed through over the objection of the National Assembly. His message to protesters? Get over it.

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Why Theology Should Take Science Seriously

For Fr. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, fundamental theology should incorporate the methods of scientists as well as philosophers in exploring basic doctrine.

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Where Will America’s Climate Migrants Go?

Journalist Jake Bittle on how the changing climate is transforming housing and migration within the United States

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Engaging Confederate Nostalgia

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?

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St. Philip Neri’s Eucharistic Joy

Philip Neri is just the kind of saint we need: a model of lightness of spirit, divine laughter, and extraordinary ordinariness.

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Reckoning With Birth

Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.

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Changing Our Minds About Time

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

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Commonweal writers reflect on their fathers and fatherhood.

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