Costică Brădăţan

Costică Brădăţan is the author, most recently, of In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press, 2023).

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Feature

Christ at the Assembly Line

Simone Weil went into the factory to find out more about the social conditions of the modern worker in capitalism. Instead, she found Jesus Christ.

By Costică Brădăţan

January 8, 2023

Feature

Two Sides of Dignity

By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.

By Costică Brădăţan

November 2, 2022

Article

The Only Way to Stand It

Tadeusz Borowski’s ‘Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories’ explores the complex social, political, and intellectual climate of Nazi Germany.

By Costică Brădăţan

May 18, 2022

Article

A Happy Contrarian

A new collection of interviews with René Girard offers insight into the complexity of his ideas and the process through which he came to them.

By Costică Brădăţan

March 12, 2021

Article

A Soft Spot for Atheism

Atheism is too serious a business to be left to the unbelievers. Unbelief needs the believer’s reflecting gaze to better understand itself.

By Costică Brădăţan

June 8, 2020

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Inescapable Influence

Whether we like it or not, we in the West inhabit a world that remains structured by Christian assumptions and informed by Christian ideas.

By Costică Brădăţan

September 30, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Must Reads

Politics

Just Call It Fascism

The thinly veiled fascism of Russian “philosopher” Alexander Dugin has attracted right-wing attention and admiration.

By Matt McManus

November 27, 2022

Religion

Call It ‘Exculturation’

We're seeing an unbinding of the deep affinity between representations of culture and Catholic culture. How did Catholicism come to be seen as the enemy?

By Massimo Faggioli

December 19, 2022

Culture

Too Casual?

Christine Emba calls for a new sexual ethic, a rethinking of sex down to its roots. But her effort to develop an alternative ultimately disappoints.

By Daniel Walden

December 4, 2022

Books

Two Sides of Dignity

By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.

By Costică Brădăţan

November 2, 2022

Collections

The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI

A collection of Commonweal’s writings on the life and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI.

January 1, 2023

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