Griffin Oleynick

Griffin Oleynick is an assistant editor at Commonweal.

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Article

Servant of Memory

Remembering the remarkable storyteller, Barry Lopez

By Griffin Oleynick

February 5, 2021

Feature

Walls That Crossed Borders

An exhibition at the Whitney Museum immerses visitors in a creative “borderland.”

By Griffin Oleynick

December 5, 2020

Article

A New Foreign Policy

Looking forward, the Biden administration will not only have to undo Trump’s disastrous foreign policy, but also proactively address the challenge posed by China.

By Griffin Oleynick

November 30, 2020

Foreign Affairs

Article

War in Nagorno-Karabakh

The escalating conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia calls for international diplomacy, but the Trump administration is failing to contain the crisis.

By Griffin Oleynick

October 29, 2020

Foreign Affairs

Article

Beirut’s Agony

In the United States as in Lebanon, the question is how much government negligence the people will put up with. We will have our own answer soon.

By Griffin Oleynick

August 26, 2020

Foreign Affairs

Muslim-Christian Relations

Article

The Sixth Circle

Donald Trump’s sins are many. Were he alive today, Dante Alighieri would know just where to send him.

By Griffin Oleynick

June 4, 2020

Domestic Affairs

Must Reads

Politics

American Arsenal

America’s “gun problem” is not a problem so much as a condition of life—and in its apparent permanence, a dangerously debilitating one.

By Dominic Preziosi

February 9, 2021

Julian of Norwich and David Hume

Religion

All Will Be Well

When facing the problem of evil, we must start where we are: in the thick of it.

By Denys Turner

January 31, 2021

Culture

Going to Extremes

What does it mean to take empathy seriously?

By John Paul Rollert

February 8, 2021

Books

On Papal Populism

Pope Francis’s new book offers a vision for a politics rooted in solidarity.

By Austen Ivereigh

February 7, 2021

Collections

Lenten Reflections

Reflections and poems to offer spiritual guidance during this period of national and theological mourning

February 23, 2021

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