This month: surviving pain through poetry, surviving the climate apocalypse through new (and ancient) narratives, surviving the present through dystopian fiction.
Wendell Berry’s book about American racism, The Hidden Wound, is half-a-century old this year. It can be considered an exercise in white vulnerability.
The best way to prevent a return of Trumpism (or Trump himself) is for President Biden to champion the American worker through bold policies and appointments.
“Some days, although we cannot pray—because we are too busy, or because we are in too much pain, or simply because the words will not come—a prayer utters itself.”
A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.
