Article The Paradox of Public Scholarship Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 6, 2022 Higher Education Race Gender
Article What It Means to ‘Represent’ The Church could use an ecclesiastical Title IX, in keeping with its teaching on the equal dignity of men and women.By Lisa FullamAugust 13, 2022 Women in the Church Gender U.S. Catholicism
Article Putting Ourselves Together Again Kaya Oakes’s new book addresses the experiences of women on the margins or in “liminal spaces”—women who do not fit in.By Rebecca Bratten WeissJanuary 8, 2022 Women in the Church Gender Saints Books LGBTQ issues
Article The Empowerment Trap The documentary LuLaRich shows how the LuLaRoe multilevel-marketing scheme preyed on women’s desire to balance careers with families.By Emma McDonaldJanuary 6, 2022 Economy Media Gender
Article Revelatory Narratives These three authors offer stories that haven’t been given sufficient attention in traditional narratives.By Claudia Avila CosnahanDecember 8, 2021 Books Latin America Gender Race Christmas Critics
Article The Travesty in Texas People of goodwill, including those opposed to abortion, should condemn the Texas law and its bounty-hunter system of enforcement.By Matthew SitmanSeptember 26, 2021 Abortion Domestic Affairs Gender
PoliticsLock Him Up? Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.By Griffin OleynickAugust 25, 2022
ReligionGood Samaritans? If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.By Meghan SullivanAugust 31, 2022
Religion‘There Will Be Surprises’ Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.By Joshua J. McElweeAugust 30, 2022
ReligionEarnest Desire Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole. By Rita FerroneAugust 27, 2022
ReligionMaxima Culpa The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.By Matt DinanJuly 15, 2021
CultureThe Paradox of Public Scholarship Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 6, 2022
CultureOnly God Could Join Us to God The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing oldBy Michael Robbins & David Bentley HartAugust 30, 2022
BooksWho’s It For? The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.By Eve TushnetAugust 7, 2022
CollectionsAbortion After Dobbs Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.By The EditorsAugust 30, 2022
