Susan McWilliams Barndt

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

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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

Socialism or Feudalism

In today’s hypercapitalist society, the rich don’t just get richer. They accumulate more political power as they bend laws to their will.

By Frank Pasquale

June 15, 2020

Religion

A Different Kind of Catholic

Longtime peace activist Martin Gugino represents a face of Catholicism that Donald Trump would not know from the ‘powerful’ Catholics around him.

By Paul Moses

June 16, 2020

Culture

Working for Justice Means Taking Sides

Defending racist and violent policing as the result of individual “bad apples” doesn’t just obscure larger systemic problems. It hinders the pursuit of justice.

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

June 9, 2020

Books

Home Songs

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.

By Isabella Simon

June 12, 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