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March 2021

v.148 n.3

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Article

The Antics of the Turnips

On making the smallest actions into acts of love

By St. Rafael Arnáiz

March 17, 2021

Spirituality

The Last Word

Feature

Carceral Aesthetics

An exhibit at MoMA PS1 teaches visitors to see the cruelty the prison system tries to hide, and to think expansively about a world in which prisons no longer exist.

March 16, 2021

Article

Excavating the Future

Mike Davis has always been a student of the future. 2020 was the year his predictions came true.

By John Thomason

March 15, 2021

Books

Coronavirus

Article

A Happy Contrarian

A new collection of interviews with René Girard offers insight into the complexity of his ideas and the process through which he came to them.

By Costică Brădăţan

March 12, 2021

Philosophy

Nonfiction

Article

The Paradoxes of Deterrence

How should people who wish for a world without nuclear weapons go about working for it?

By Bernard G. Prusak

March 11, 2021

War and Peace

Politics

Feature

Scraping By

Scenes from the pandemic in Cholula, Mexico.

March 10, 2021

Article

Eat or Get Eaten

‘The White Tiger’ turns a hard gaze on India’s unforgiving social stratification and what it takes to break through it.

March 3, 2021

Article

When Texts Become Idols

What happens when the Bible becomes something more than revelation, and the Constitution something more than a tool?

By Sarah Ruden

March 1, 2021

U.S. Catholicism

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

Feature

After Evo

With the election of Luis Arce, Bolivia’s constitutional order has either been reestablished or preserved, depending on one’s point of view.

By Santiago Ramos

February 25, 2021

Latin America

Politics

Article

Getting Back to School

What’s at stake in the fight over reopening schools?

By Dominic Preziosi

February 24, 2021

Education

Coronavirus

Article

Hope for Yemen

The Biden administration has the opportunity, and the obligation, to end the catastrophe in Yemen.

February 22, 2021

Article

Shameful

With the shameful acquittal in the Senate over, Democrats must now focus on fulfilling their campaign promises.

By The Editors

February 18, 2021

Donald Trump

Election 2020

Domestic Affairs

Article

“You Can’t Lock Up the Whole Country”

Alexei Navalny’s arrest has sparked protests from Russians across the political spectrum.

By Isabella Simon

February 16, 2021

Russia

Foreign Affairs

Article

Women’s Work

The Vatican keeps telling bishops that they can allow women to serve. It stops short, even now, of telling them that they should.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

January 26, 2021

Women in the Church

Laity

Article

‘Citizen Kane’ Revisited

‘Mank,’ a new movie about the politics behind ‘Citizen Kane,’ focuses on Upton Sinclair—a friend of Commonweal’s founding editor.

By Paul Baumann

January 22, 2021

Movies

Article

The Mourning After

The vandal president is gone. But the assault on truth has been grievous.

By Rand Richards Cooper

January 21, 2021

Donald Trump

Election 2020

Article

Gender, Sex, and Other Nonsense

Catholic conversation about sex and gender has a problem.

March 1, 2021

Article

Oh, to be an Oxford don tasked with formulating questions about relativism, cultural imperialism, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Las Vegas, and the present status of concepts of “the soul”!