Article Is Religion Growing Up? From the Commonweal archives: Fulton Sheen reflects on reason, relativism, and traditional philosophy. By Fulton J. Sheen May 8, 2019 From the Archives Philosophy Secularism and Modernity
Article Poem | The Family Bright, upright, / They are / Like flowers in a jar. By Sarah Ruden May 6, 2019 Poetry
Article Poem | New Moon Not a coin I can spend / but a penny worn dark, / a star collapsed. By Michael Cadnum May 6, 2019 Poetry
Article Poem | * These walls become sails, their corners / opening as if this pillow / is reaching out where two should be. By Simon Perchik May 6, 2019 Poetry
Article Poem | Hate Is an Echo Olive leaves disguised by the darkness / Unenlightened desperate reason / Offering little hope to all mankind. By M. L. Liebler May 6, 2019 Poetry
Article Letters | The decline of the West, taxing the rich Readers write in praise of Elizabeth Warren, and caution the magazine to widen its horizons. By The Editors May 6, 2019 Letters
Article College as Department Store However enchanting arcane research and increasing specialization might be, it is not going to help preserve democracy in a truly free society. By Paul Lakeland May 6, 2019 Higher Education Secularism and Modernity Social Justice
Article The Politics of Humor Throughout the history of European thought, humor has always had an unruly, utopian impulse: one that transcended class and threatened to upend the social order. By Terry Eagleton May 6, 2019 Philosophy Poetry Fiction
