March 2025

Antisemitism—which is rife in the Trump administration itself—is now being used as a pretext for an authoritarian assault on universities.

The God who sees the plight of migrants in the borderlands is the same God who spoke to Moses in Exodus.

In a country that’s supposed to be a model for free expression, journalism is under siege.

Can I still keep using this Catholic education to understand the world if I’m no longer Catholic? Can I even still ask the curriculum’s questions if I’m no longer professing the faith that animates them?

Twenty-five years ago, John Paul II’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land expressed hope for justice for both Israelis and Palestinians.

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are. Alienation makes us present as closeness cannot.

Who would have thought an American president would make Neville Chamberlain look good?