Regina Munch

Regina Munch is an assistant editor at Commonweal.

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The Fiction of Isolation

This year I read several novels set in war zones, where the Christmas message of God’s mercy can be especially hard to hear.

December 11, 2019

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Into the Abyss

Why do we tell lies and indulge in half-truths? A new novel confronts monsters, both real and metaphorical, as it experiments with the boundaries of narrative.

By Regina Munch

October 26, 2019

Fiction

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Migrants in Limbo

We need a truly international reckoning with the fact of mass migration, one in which wealthy countries actually confront climate change and food insecurity.

September 25, 2019

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Cruelty’s the Point

The retrial of humanitarian border activist Scott Warren raises frightening concerns for all who would help migrants. A conviction would set a dangerous precedent.

July 11, 2019

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A Textbook Case

A lot of people fancy themselves history buffs, obsessing over names, dates, and numbers. But facts aren’t narratives. And history can’t be learned from a phone.

May 16, 2019

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In Tech We Trust?

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood are an unlikely group of Amazon shareholders, but they’re forcing a vote on the company’s facial recognition software.

May 9, 2019

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

‘Me Hearing Me’

Choral singing is one thing I love that I can’t replicate online, that I just have to miss. What a grief. And what a reassurance.

By Katherine Lucky

May 26, 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

Collections

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