Article Learning 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 Literature Higher Education
Article Seen and Not Seen Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, ‘Peaces,’ is a work of imaginative exuberance, at once absurd and moving.By Phil ChristmanJuly 25, 2021 Fiction Literature
Article What the Imagination Seizes The works of Greg Gerke and Rachel Eisendrath remind us why we come to art: to be changed, to find beauty, and to interpret our own lives.By Anthony DomesticoJuly 17, 2021 Arts Literature Nonfiction
Article ‘Justly Responsive’ “Every time I read Donoghue, I knew I was reading the work of a master.”By Anthony DomesticoApril 9, 2021 Books Literature
Article Thinking Latinly Through his renowned Latin classes, Fr. Reginald Foster taught students new ways to understand time and connect with others.By Cathleen KavenyJanuary 25, 2021 Literature Philosophy
Article Cicero Will Outlive Your Tweets Why a “dead” language lives onBy Charles McNamaraJanuary 18, 2021 Literature
PoliticsReckoning with Guantánamo The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.By The EditorsSeptember 28, 2021
Religion‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021
CultureIn Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021
Books‘Sops to Humanity’ Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.By Phil KlayOctober 4, 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
