Matthew Sitman

Article

Justice Breyer Needs to Retire

Justice Breyer should retire while he can be sure that a Democratic Senate will consider whomever Biden nominates.

By Matthew Sitman

April 28, 2021

Supreme Court

Joe Biden

Politics

Article

Stopping the Vote

In the wake of Biden’s victory, Republicans have undertaken a fierce assault on voting rights.

By Matthew Sitman

March 23, 2021

Domestic Affairs

Election 2020

Article

Public Health v. Culture War

Measures to restrict Mass attendance in a pandemic can be imperfect without being unconstitutional.

January 4, 2021

Article

Time in the Eternal City

The Church’s mission is not found in grandeur or glory, but as the guardian of tenderness, as a witness to the possibility of mercy.

By Matthew Sitman

December 24, 2020

Spirituality

Theology

Article

The “Weekend at Bernie’s” Primary

The democratic establishment continues to prop up Joe Biden, despite his alarming incoherence and deteriorating mental acumen.

March 3, 2020

Article

Misreading the British Elections

No issue in U.S. politics, not even immigration or “the Wall,” will do for Republicans what Brexit did for the Tories.

December 24, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

No More Blank Checks

The House is repealing the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. But other AUMFs remain in place, and those, too, must go.

By Regina Munch

July 8, 2021

Religion

Still Unaccommodated

Disrupting and repairing the structural inequalities in Church institutions is not easy, and often not welcome.

By Brett C. Hoover

July 10, 2021

Culture

Giving the Sickness a Name

For the novelist Walker Percy, acedia was not just an arcane spiritual malady but a widespread, distinctly modern phenomenon.

By Jeff Reimer

July 7, 2021

Books

Bio Hazards

With both the highly anticipated arrival of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography and what’s transpired since, it’s harder to know what to think—about either subject.

By Dominic Preziosi

July 19, 2021

Books

Iconoclasm 2.0

ISIS’s 2015 destruction of Iraqi sculptures raises broader questions about the fraught relationship between politics, religion, and technology.

By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

July 11, 2021

Collections

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re collecting poems and writings about poetry, with new additions by our literary critic every Friday.

By The Editors

April 7, 2021

Collections

Fiction in Commonweal

To celebrate the publication our summer fiction issue, a new collection of short stories from our archives.

By The Editors

July 30, 2019