Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

Griffin Oleynick is an assistant editor at Commonweal. Anthony Domestico is Associate Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY and a columnist at Commonweal.

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Readings & Screenings

In the final installment of our series, we consider two landmark essays on Homer’s Iliad alongside Costa-Gavras’s Greek political thriller, ‘Z.’

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

September 28, 2020

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Summer Readings & Screenings

We take a close look at the evils of Italian fascism, with help from Natalia Ginzburg and Ettore Scola.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

June 24, 2020

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Summer Readings & Screenings

Soviet novelist Vasily Grossman is not often thought of as a religious thinker. But his Armenian travelogue shows a different, more numinous side of his work.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

August 23, 2019

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Summer Readings & Screenings

The 1947 masterpiece ‘In a Lonely Place’ elevates noir conventions to perfection, finding evil in society, in others, even in ourselves.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

July 11, 2019

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Summer Readings & Screenings

Faith in God is an absurdity, as is Christ himself, and the believer must boldly, absurdly choose Christ anyway, again and again and again.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

August 20, 2020

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Summer Readings & Screenings

In this second installment of our summer series, we’re thinking about race in America with help from Harold Cruse and Kathleen Collins.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

July 10, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Is ‘Bronze Age Pervert’ Born to Rule?

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.

By Matt McManus

November 19, 2023

Religion

Sold by the Jesuits

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

By Marcia Chatelain

November 15, 2023

Culture

Have We Become Gods?

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

November 15, 2023

Books

Preserving Hope for Humanity

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

By Gilbert Meilaender

November 1, 2023

Collections

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

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

November 14, 2023

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