Feature Things Get Broken Leonard Bernstein’s ‘MASS’ explores lament and praise, accidents, and youth lost and found.By Stephen Schloesser, SJSeptember 24, 2021 Music History
Article Shaman & Scapegoat Perhaps more than any of the other celebrated pop stars of his time, Jim Morrison understood that one day the party would end.By Santiago RamosAugust 15, 2021 Music Rock-and-roll
Article ‘When Black Was Born’ A new documentary explores the power of Black music at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969.By Clifford ThompsonAugust 1, 2021 Music Race Movies
Article ‘Clown, Professor, Writer’ Robert Lax was many things: a mystic, a poet, a world traveler, and a convert from Judaism to Catholicism who valued both traditions.By Carol LevineJune 10, 2021 Poetry Music
Article The Second Life of a Masterpiece Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Three Small Liturgies’ debuted as war raged in Europe. Now we listen to his masterpiece in a new context—Christmas during a pandemic.By Stephen Schloesser, SJDecember 30, 2020 Music
Article The Truest of Texas Troubadours “What set Billy Joe Shaver apart is that he never flinched, as an artist or as a man.”By Matthew SitmanOctober 29, 2020 Music Death and Dying
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
