Article False Choices Defending Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb misrepresents both history and moral decision-making. By John Schwenkler & Mark SouvaOctober 14, 2020 Japan War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Article Saved by the Bomb? The complexity of the decision to drop the atom bomb forces us to grapple with our principles and priorities.By Paul BaumannOctober 8, 2020 War and Peace Foreign Affairs Japan
Article The God of Silence Stark, spare and harrowing, Shusaku's 'Silence' challenges our understanding of martyrdom and probes the mystery of the Incarnation. By William CavanaughMarch 27, 2019 From the Archives Japan Books
Article Japan and Christianity The spread of Christianity in 1930's Japan meets with strong resistance, both political and cultural. By J. AufhauserMarch 1, 1933 Japan
PoliticsVisionary Gradualist Pressure To Michael Harrington, socialism was the idea of a society in which certain fundamental limitations of human existence are transcended.By Gary DorrienSeptember 8, 2021
ReligionA Beautiful Day, A Horrible Event From the archives: Faith in the Resurrection does not cancel out what happens on the cross; the cross is its beginning.By John GarveySeptember 11, 2021
ReligionThe Limits of ‘Traditionis Custodes’ Anti–Vatican II traditionalism won’t just disappear by papal fiat.By Massimo FaggioliSeptember 2, 2021
CultureThe Same Anew The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.By Anthony DomesticoSeptember 2, 2021
CultureThere Ought to Be a Law The law is one thing, morality another. Conflating them flattens our public morality into a deadening binary.By Matthew BoudwayMay 24, 2021
BooksLearning What to Want Not all aesthetic consumption is equal, and developing the ability to judge the art we encounter can help transform us.By Nate KlugSeptember 8, 2021
CollectionsConfronting Climate Change Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.By The EditorsSeptember 20, 2021
