David Albertson

David Albertson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California.

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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

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

Drinking Alone

Moving to a Rust Belt town taught me that real solidarity is harder than it looks.

By Jonathan Malesic

July 13, 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