David Sessions

David Sessions is a doctoral candidate in modern European history at Boston College.

At the same time Jacobs celebrates the cultural influence the Christian humanists enjoyed, he also presents them as unheeded voices in the wilderness

December 6, 2018

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Politics

It’s hard to understand how anyone can think of Bronze Age Pervert as a role model, but an alarming number of young would-be fascists apparently do.

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Religion

Rachel L. Swarns's book dives into the history and legacy of the 272 slaves sold by the Jesuits at Georgetown University.

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Culture

Tara Isabella Burton’s new book asks: How has self-creation in pursuit of profit become our social ideal?

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Books

One fear ties together techno-utopian fantasies and anti-birth environmentalism: the messy, imperfect reality of our human bodies.

November 1, 2023

Collections

A collection of Commonweal's writings on the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2009

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