Matthew Sitman

Matthew Sitman is an associate editor of Commonweal. You can follow him on Twitter.

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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.

By Matthew Sitman

December 24, 2019

Foreign Affairs

Article

Preeminent?

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Making the Rich Pay

Studies show that the rich tend to be less empathetic and more selfish. Electoral politics, and policy change, is a promising way to take back what they’ve stolen.

By Matthew Sitman

October 30, 2019

Article

Helping & Hurting

The first Democratic debates featured a flawed format. The progressive vision of Sanders and Warren set the tone, but Harris, Buttigieg, and Castro also stood out.

By Matthew Sitman

June 28, 2019

Domestic Affairs

Foreign Affairs

Article

Gossip & Insight

Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.

By Matthew Sitman

December 15, 2018

Article

Letting ‘Amoris laetitia’ Be Heard

A gathering in Boston gave a sense of what Pope Francis’s vision of the church in ‘Amoris laetitia’ might actually look like

By Matthew Sitman

October 16, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

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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

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