Phil Klay

Phil Klay is the author of Redeployment (Penguin Books) and the host of the podcast Manifesto! He teaches in the Fairfield University MFA program.

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Feature

‘Sops to Humanity’

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

October 4, 2021

Article

Nothing Left Worth Saving

Set in a miserable dystopia, Houellebecq’s latest novel is both thought-provoking and wearying, fronted by a hypercynical yet dangerously nostalgic narrator.

February 27, 2020

Secularism and Modernity

Must Reads

Politics

Reckoning with Guantánamo

The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.

September 28, 2021

Religion

‘Always Together’

An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’

By Pope Francis

September 28, 2021

Culture

In Awe of All People

The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

September 30, 2021

Books

‘Sops to Humanity’

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

October 4, 2021

Collections

Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

September 20, 2021

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