David Albertson

David Albertson is associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California and executive director of the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought.

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American Idols

“Catholics who advocate for the dignity of all human life still have a lot of work to do.”

July 13, 2022

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American Paganism

The debate is not whether modern paganism is real, but where it lives, how it appears, and what it does. In contemporary politics, it's cruelty and violence.

February 3, 2020

Secularism and Modernity

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Politics

Is American Democracy Coming Apart?

Those who would follow him, Jesus tells us, must love their enemies. Those words issue a challenge for all Americans interested in redeeming democracy’s promise .

By James T. Kloppenberg

April 4, 2023

Religion

AI, Policy, & Faith

How should faith leaders and policymakers respond to the rise of AI? A bishop and a White House official sit down for a dialogue on algorithms and human dignity.

By John P. Slattery

April 12, 2023

Religion

Famine and the Living God

East Africa is in the midst of the worst drought in living memory. Devastation here will not be the result of some natural evil so much as our own lack of care.

By Karen Kilby

April 4, 2023

Culture

Have Men Become Culturally Redundant?

Men in the industrialized world seem to have lost their groove. We need a new vision of masculinity adequate to our current social and economic circumstances.

By Brendan Ruberry

April 10, 2023

Books

When Literature Stood on Its Own

"I loved Steinbeck's letters so much I want others to know about them too, for they recall an era when literature stood on its own."

By Jo McGowan

February 21, 2023

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Anti-Semitism & the Catholic Church

Commonweal writers reflect on the atrocity of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church.

By The Editors

April 17, 2023