Article Picture Imperfect David Chalmers’s new book, ‘Reality+,’ asks us to consider whether virtual worlds can be real, too.By John SchwenklerAugust 31, 2022 Philosophy Books Technology
Article Privileges of Personhood We rush to consider the personhood of AI, but we neglect to extend the rights it should confer to the marginalized among us. By John P. SlatteryJuly 8, 2022 Technology Ethics
Article In Search of a Prophetic Voice for Tech Ethics The Church has so far failed to provide nuanced guidance on technological ethics. But it’s not too late to become a prophetic voice on the subject.By John P. SlatteryMarch 10, 2022 Technology Pope Francis Ethics
Article Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent The perils and promise of AI aren’t merely abstract. They’re also material.By John P. SlatteryFebruary 17, 2022 Technology
Article A Supplement, Not a Substitute How has entering the digital world changed our conceptions of the way we live our lives?By Santiago RamosFebruary 12, 2022 Technology
Article There Will Be Blogs Why preserve for posterity, or at all, what is by definition scarcely meant to endure beyond the moment?By Morten Høi JensenJanuary 11, 2022 Books Technology LGBTQ issues
PoliticsLock Him Up? Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.By Griffin OleynickAugust 25, 2022
ReligionGood Samaritans? If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.By Meghan SullivanAugust 31, 2022
Religion‘There Will Be Surprises’ Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.By Joshua J. McElweeAugust 30, 2022
ReligionEarnest Desire Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole. By Rita FerroneAugust 27, 2022
ReligionMaxima Culpa The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.By Matt DinanJuly 15, 2021
CultureThe Paradox of Public Scholarship Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 6, 2022
CultureOnly God Could Join Us to God The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing oldBy Michael Robbins & David Bentley HartAugust 30, 2022
BooksWho’s It For? The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.By Eve TushnetAugust 7, 2022
CollectionsAbortion After Dobbs Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.By The EditorsAugust 30, 2022
