Jared Lucky

Jared Lucky is a PhD student in History at Yale University. He is originally from El Paso, Texas.

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Article

Is There Still a West?

Capturing diverse perspectives and humanizing legends, H. W. Brands’ new history of the American West is eloquent and informative.

By Jared Lucky

March 5, 2020

Books

Domestic Affairs

Article

The Place Up Ahead

The new Coen Brothers western refreshes and deepens the genre, puncturing cheap grace with a meditation on death

By Jared Lucky

December 14, 2018

Movies

Article

An Act of Service

Quarantine during a pandemic is not demonic. Few Christians would ask for this cup, but we must drink it—to serve God by serving our neighbors.

By Jared Lucky

March 25, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Child Labor Isn’t in the Past

We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

August 6, 2023

Religion

Opus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity

In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.

By Daniele Palmer

August 4, 2023

Culture

Barbie the Existentialist

Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.

By Santiago Ramos

August 25, 2023

Books

Is Ethics Like Math?

A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory.

By Frank B. Farrell

August 17, 2023

Collections

Pope Francis at Ten Years

A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.

By The Editors

March 12, 2023