Matthew Sitman

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

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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.

June 28, 2019

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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.

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

October 16, 2017

Feature

Saving Calvin from Clichés

Marilynne Robinson's engagement with Calvin remains essential for our own self-understanding as inhabitants of a world he helped create

By Matthew Sitman

October 5, 2017

Ecumenism

Secularism and Modernity

Books

Article

Song without a Story

How does Terrence Malick’s ‘Song to Song’ manage to hit all the wrong notes?

By Matthew Sitman

March 29, 2017

Movies

Music

Article

Muddling Through

George Scialabba has provided not just a profound account of depression, but a reminder of how precarious our lives can be, and how much we need each other.

December 30, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Not a Normal Election

By telling Americans in advance that he intends to stay in power regardless of the vote count, Trump implicates his supporters in his actions.

By Timothy Snyder

November 2, 2020

Religion

The Bundist Rabbi

An organized pursuit of justice is both Michael Feinberg’s work and his passion.

By Fran Quigley

January 2, 2021

Religion

‘Worship of a False God’

Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about why racism persists in America and the Church: because racist policies and structures benefit white people.

By Regina Munch

December 27, 2020

Culture

Her Majesty, His Holiness

How ‘The Crown’ can help us think about the papacy.

By Massimo Faggioli

December 30, 2020

Books

‘A Rhetoric of Elevation’

Barack Obama’s memoir is written with admirable clarity and attention to detail, but is weighed down by its tone.

By Paul Baumann

January 1, 2021

Collections

Fratelli Tutti

A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.

By The Editors

November 17, 2020