Article Theological Resistance A new book explores how to build a “theological resistance” when political resistance is futile.By Marcia PallyJanuary 16, 2021 Philosophy Literature
Article Fueled by Contempt Mary Gordon’s new novel explores a very different kind of character—a less contemplative, more spiteful one.By Tom DeignanJanuary 13, 2021 Literature Politics
Article Cicero Will Outlive Your Tweets Why a “dead” language lives onBy Charles McNamaraDecember 22, 2020 Literature
Article Experiments in Living What does freedom look like in a pandemic year?By Santiago RamosDecember 22, 2020 Literature Coronavirus
Article Confronting Flannery O’Connor’s Racism Flannery O’Connor isn’t going anywhere. Neither are the remarks she made and the questions they raise.By Paul ElieAugust 12, 2020 Fiction Race Literature
Article What Might Have Been Often, we ask ourselves not just who we are, but who we might have been. Fiction can help us explore answers to that question.By Morten Høi JensenJuly 15, 2020 Literature Fiction Books
PoliticsNot a Normal Election By telling Americans in advance that he intends to stay in power regardless of the vote count, Trump implicates his supporters in his actions.By Timothy SnyderNovember 2, 2020
ReligionThe Bundist Rabbi An organized pursuit of justice is both Michael Feinberg’s work and his passion.By Fran QuigleyJanuary 2, 2021
Religion‘Worship of a False God’ Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about why racism persists in America and the Church: because racist policies and structures benefit white people.By Regina MunchDecember 27, 2020
CultureHer Majesty, His Holiness How ‘The Crown’ can help us think about the papacy.By Massimo FaggioliDecember 30, 2020
Books‘A Rhetoric of Elevation’ Barack Obama’s memoir is written with admirable clarity and attention to detail, but is weighed down by its tone.By Paul BaumannJanuary 1, 2021
CollectionsFratelli Tutti A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.By The EditorsNovember 17, 2020
