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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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.

By Phil Klay

February 27, 2020

Books

Literature

Secularism and Modernity

Must Reads

Politics

William Barr, Unbound

Attorney General William Barr is a disgrace, subordinating the impartiality and professionalism of the Justice Department to President Trump’s political needs.

By The Editors

May 21, 2020

Religion

Viganò & the Virus

The latest manifesto from archbishop Viganò descends into intellectual and moral farce, when what the world really needs from the church is true gravitas.

By Massimo Faggioli

May 20, 2020

Culture

Take It Personally

Those of us stuck at home and not on the front lines can become numb. How should we feel about the hordes of lives being lost every day? How should we grieve?

By Gordon Marino

May 15, 2020

Books

The God Trick

We are far past Peak Rawls. A new book undoes the pretension to timelessness that the philosopher once claimed.

By Susan McWilliams Barndt

May 11, 2020

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The Coronavirus

COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.

By The Editors

April 21, 2020