Adam Willis

Adam Willis is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Politico, The Outline, and Slate.

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A Different Kind of Heaven

The late singer-songwriter John Prine imagined paradise as a place like Earth, only more abundant, and more welcoming for sinners.

By Adam Willis

April 14, 2020

Death and Dying

Music

Spirituality

Feature

‘Who Is This Stupid God?’

On the ground reporting from the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks on the Catholic Church have called forth a renewed sense of solidarity.

By Adam Willis

February 8, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Will a Plebiscite Bring Reform in Chile?

Mass demonstrators want to re-legitimize, reconstruct, and reconfigure Chile’s political foundation. But first, Chile must get past the pandemic.

By Santiago Ramos

September 1, 2020

Religion

Pope Francis’s Call to Fraternity

At the core of ‘Fratelli tutti’ is Francis’s conviction that the world is fast losing its sense of the oneness of the human family.

By Austen Ivereigh

October 4, 2020

Culture

Readings & Screenings

In the final installment of our series, we consider two landmark essays on Homer’s Iliad alongside Costa-Gavras’s Greek political thriller, ‘Z.’

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

September 28, 2020

Books

D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic

Nature is central to this collection of D. H. Lawrence’s nonfiction, from New Mexican deserts to flowering Tuscan hills.

By George Scialabba

October 10, 2020

Collections

The 2020 Presidential Election

Amid the confusion created by the pandemic, one thing is clear: the 2020 election will be unlike any other. Here’s some of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

By The Editors

September 11, 2020