Max Foley-Keene

Max Foley-Keene is a doctoral student in political science at Brown University, and a former Commonweal intern.

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Beyond Growth

The planet cannot provide the endless growth capitalism demands. A new book explores an economic reordering that could move us toward a sustainable future.

November 4, 2020

Article

The Education of a Wonk

By implementing Ezra Klein’s recommendations, we certainly would have a marginally more functional political system. But would it be more just?

February 20, 2020

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The Nordic Welfare Model

Decades of neoliberalism have rendered the American left understandably wary of welfare benefits for all, not just the poor. But Scandinavia shows that it works.

October 22, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Piety, Populism, and ‘Patriots’

Far-right websites catering to Catholics promote Christian nationalism under the guise of journalism.

By Paul Moses

January 8, 2021

Religion

Warnock’s Way

Rev. Raphael Warnock’s victory shows how a new moral majority—multiracial and interfaith—can begin to reclaim faith from the grip of reactionary white Christians.

By John Gehring

January 11, 2021

Culture

COVID Fatigue

“We do what we are supposed to do, walk the stage, say our lines. But the reality is that, even if we hit our marks, many of our patients will not survive.”

By Ebtesam Attaya Islam

January 14, 2021

Books

Apocalypse Now

A collection of essays by Elisa Gabbert explores how we respond collectively and individually to tragedy.

By Katherine Lucky

January 10, 2021

Books

‘Nameless Greatness’

Novelist Louise Erdrich’s latest book explores her Catholic and Ojibwe roots as it probes a painful period in recent Native American history.

By Anthony Domestico

August 7, 2020

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