Griffin Oleynick

Griffin Oleynick is an associate editor at Commonweal.

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Article

Asking the Right Questions

Philosophers Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko discuss the good life, virtue ethics, and what philosophy can add to a religious person’s life.

February 16, 2022

Feature

Mirror, Mirror

A major retrospective devoted to the art of Jasper Johns affords new visions of the artist, and ourselves.

January 12, 2022

Article

‘Shipwreck of Civilization’

Indifference toward the migrant crisis has lately become even more tinged with hostility to migrants themselves—and opposition to the right to migrate at all.

December 31, 2021

Feature

Embracing Uncertainty

The Norbertines in Santa Maria de la Vid understand that moving forward means adopting a flexible style of living and working in the Albuquerque community.

By Griffin Oleynick

November 2, 2021

Religious Life

The Varieties of Religious Community Today

Feature

Unlocked Affinities

Pairing the paintings of Chaïm Soutine and Willem de Kooning offers viewers a luminous vision of life outside time.

By Griffin Oleynick

July 18, 2021

Arts

Article

The Eviction Crisis

President Biden has repeatedly said that “housing is a human right.” He will now have a chance to show the country he means it.

By Griffin Oleynick

July 9, 2021

Joe Biden

Coronavirus

Must Reads

Politics

Lock Him Up?

Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.

By Griffin Oleynick

August 25, 2022

Religion

Good Samaritans?

If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.

By Meghan Sullivan

August 31, 2022

Religion

‘There Will Be Surprises’

Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.

By Joshua J. McElwee

August 30, 2022

Religion

Earnest Desire

Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole.

By Rita Ferrone

August 27, 2022

Religion

Maxima Culpa

The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.

By Matt Dinan

July 15, 2021

Culture

The Paradox of Public Scholarship

Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 6, 2022

Culture

Only God Could Join Us to God

The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing old

By Michael Robbins & David Bentley Hart

August 30, 2022

Books

Who’s It For?

The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.

By Eve Tushnet

August 7, 2022

Collections

Abortion After Dobbs

Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.

By The Editors

August 30, 2022