The wildfires raging on the West Coast are part of a broader, climate change–induced pattern. We must respond with real solutions, not just mitigation.
Viruses may not be alive, but they are lively. A close look at how they replicate reveals an interconnected picture not just of human life, but of all reality.
God is everywhere; for those who do not find him so easily in church pews, the ocean shore or a patterned turtle shell may be places to seek his presence.
Theodore Roszak’s work was more than an apologia for 60s counterculture. It was one of the era’s most impassioned attempts to revitalize the utopian imagination.
The best way to prevent a return of Trumpism (or Trump himself) is for President Biden to champion the American worker through bold policies and appointments.
“Some days, although we cannot pray—because we are too busy, or because we are in too much pain, or simply because the words will not come—a prayer utters itself.”
A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.
