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July 6, 2018

v.145 n.12

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Article

Monarchists at Heart?

A new book about the history of Evangelicals in America provides a helpful, if limited, survey of the movement

By Darren Dochuck

July 10, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Thomas McGuane

Article

Fugitive Truths

In its apprehension of a certain American mode of being, ‘Cloudbursts’ is an indispensable monument to slip alongside the work of John Cheever and Peter Taylor

By William Giraldi

July 9, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Article

A Farewell Note

Commonweal's editor reflects on retirement after nearly three decades with the magazine

By Paul Baumann

June 17, 2018

Article

Violent Delights

The acclaimed HBO series is long on philosophical ponderousness, but short on humor

June 15, 2018

Article

A Critical Kitchen Sink

Lorrie Moore has written an engrossing critical compilation covering books, films, music, TV, and (for good measure) politics

By Valerie Sayers

May 17, 2018

Article

Choking on Growth

Given the economic development model India has chosen to pursue, it’s unlikely that emissions will be reduced anytime soon

July 10, 2018

Feature

Slattery wasn’t given to looking back. A surgeon, he’d been trained not to dwell on losses, and the finality of all decisions comforted him

Unearthing

By Rand Richards Cooper

July 5, 2018

Article

Cambodia Diaries

Contemplative observations of a memorial, Buddhist monks, and a car ride in Cambodia yield surprising realizations about connectedness in the modern age

By Paul J. Griffiths

July 4, 2018

Foreign Affairs

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Social Justice Warrior

John Augustine Ryan was a priest both ahead of his time and for today

By Arthur S. Meyers

July 2, 2018

U.S. Catholicism

Domestic Affairs

Article

‘A Party of Friends’

It is far better to be a guest at a Swedish wedding than at an American wedding: not only are the weddings more fun; they’re more meaningful

By David Michael

June 27, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Poem | Conversation with Messiaen

In wonder at the glories of the word / You dare to celebrate the sacred bird. / How everything is God’s, who’s everywhere

By Micheal O’Siadhail

June 25, 2018

Article

Poem | Sunrise, with Motherly Influence

We drink coffee though it tires us, / we love our partners and in loving / we forget our work.

By John Linstrom

June 25, 2018

Article

Poem | Kenosis

Look at the rock cut / to carve the highway / and see the history / of its making

By Elizabeth Poreba

June 25, 2018

Article

Bad metaphysics, overheard at Hardee’s, etc.

Readers respond to the idea of progress, the human life cycle, marriage, and the death of Fr. Nonomen

June 25, 2018

Article

Saving Adam

Given advances in scientific discovery, does it make sense to establish a place for the Genesis account of creation?

By John W. Farrell

June 25, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Article

God’s Lonely Man

Paul Schrader's new film strives to find redemption in solitude, grief, and humiliation

By Rand Richards Cooper

June 21, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Shameful & Shameless

The morally shameful policy of separating children from their parents at the border demands explicit and sustained condemnation.

June 19, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Article

Trump is lying. There is nothing that requires the Justice Department to separate families.

Border Blame Game

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

June 18, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Article

Jane Kenyon’s Peonies

Against Kenyon’s poetic gaze, the flower becomes not only an object of beauty but a metaphor for all seasons of life

By Steven Knepper

June 16, 2018

Death and Dying

Article

Sweet Nothings

A new novel probes the meaning of love, suffering, and aging, but stops short of taking on Christian redemption

By Randy Boyagoda

June 16, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Article

The Wildness of God

Salvation is unnatural and uncivilized, the novel suggests, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying

By Anthony Domestico

June 6, 2018

Article

A Gentile’s Philip Roth

Among Philip Roth's immense gifts was the gift of friendship.

May 29, 2018

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