Commonweal’s editors share their favorite pieces of the year—on the Synod on Synodality, economic inequality, the therapeutic mindset, and much, much more.
She had no spite or worldly cunning, but she refused to massage the egos of those around her or to conceal her overwhelming belief in the rightness of her vision.
Louise Glück weaves together poetry and prayer. Kathryn Davis writes of loving, reading, dreaming, and dying. The two leave us unmoored and longing for more.
“Rooting abortion jurisprudence in expressive individualism, the Roe and Casey decisions absolved all of us of our obligation to come to the aid of women in crisis.”
In ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Martin Scorsese serves up an inversion of history as we have come to know it, revealing his larger aim—the correction of memory.
Conceiving of our deepest selves in terms of neuroses and traumas sends us continually back on ourselves in a way that may reproduce rather than redress our anguish.
“When I started writing this review, I resolved to avoid the mawkish, almost elegiac tone that often seeps into essays about Scialabba. As you can see, I’ve failed.”
"There’s regular routine. There’s emergency routine. And there is wartime routine. The only thing I know about this routine is that it’s never routine."
In the AI era, we face the prospect of a servile dehumanization, of giving up activities that bring human beings a deep sense of joy, satisfaction, and connection.
