Susan McWilliams Barndt

Susan McWilliams Barndt is associate professor of politics at Pomona College.

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Article

The Evidence of Bugs Unseen

What does a rational man do when others dismiss his “eminently reasonable” accounts of hurt and requests for help?

By Susan McWilliams Barndt

February 9, 2022

Books

Nonfiction

Article

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

Secularism and Modernity

Philosophy

Higher Education

Article

In the Beginning Was the Word

That speech itself took a beating in the 2016 election is troubling. But Clinton and Trump were not singularly to blame: Both candidates embodied longer-term trends.

By Susan McWilliams Barndt

December 6, 2016

Donald Trump

Election 2016

Domestic Affairs

Must Reads

Politics

Child Labor Isn’t in the Past

We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

August 6, 2023

Religion

Opus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity

In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.

By Daniele Palmer

August 4, 2023

Culture

Barbie the Existentialist

Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.

By Santiago Ramos

August 25, 2023

Books

Is Ethics Like Math?

A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory.

By Frank B. Farrell

August 17, 2023

Collections

Pope Francis at Ten Years

A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.

By The Editors

March 12, 2023