December 2023

Commonweal’s editors share their favorite pieces of the year—on the Synod on Synodality, economic inequality, the therapeutic mindset, and much, much more.

“Hopefully, these releases—all introducing poets to English-reading audiences for the first time—will push the door of translation open even wider.”

The further politicization of higher education is collateral damage from the U.S. government’s unqualified support for an unjustly prosecuted war.

She had no spite or worldly cunning, but she refused to massage the egos of those around her or to conceal her overwhelming belief in the rightness of her vision.

The miners who rescued 41 trapped laborers in a collapsed Indian tunnel were fueled by solidarity, humility, and respect for nature.

In a Nazi prison camp, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his first play, set in Bethlehem on the night of Christ’s birth.