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IssueVol. 149 Issue 008 (September 1 2022)
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Paid articleLetters
Commonweal FOUNDED IN 1924 Accessing the classics, symbols of inclusion, and solidarity with victims A DIGITAL WORLD OF IDEAS I share Zena Hitz’s dismay about the decline of the physical...
Paid articleMaking the rent
FROM THE EDITORS Making the Rent From May to June of this year, residential rents across the country saw their largest monthly jump since 1986. Asking prices in the second quarter were 23...
Paid articleSmothering the Coptic Church
Munch, Regina
Lock Him Up? On the morning of August 8, while former president Donald Trump was away at an event in New York, FBI agents executed a federal search warrant at his residence at Mar-a-Lago. They left...
Paid articleThe Inflation Reduction Act
Simon, Isabella
­­­­ ­ ­­ The Inflation Reduction Act Passing any significant climate, health-care, or tax legislation seemed impossible a month ago, frustrating and worrying Democrats, whose razor-thin...
Paid articleThe paradox of public scholarship
Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
SHORT TAKES SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS The Paradox of Public Scholarship We need more of it—but on whose terms? Public scholarship is having a moment. From Twitter threads to op-eds, scholars...
Paid articleLetter from the United Kingdom
Robertson, Felix
SHORT TAKES FELIX ROBERTSON Scandals that Stick Letter from the United Kingdom In the end, the pressure was too great even for “Teflon Boris.” On July 7, Boris Johnson officially stepped...
Paid articleDouble standards
SJ, Fernando C. Saldivar
SHORT TAKES FERNANDO C. SALDIVAR, SJ Double Standards Why some African nations are reluctant to condemn Russia Although heavy fighting con­tinues in Ukraine five months after Russia’s...
Paid articleThe steadfast gaze
Cooper, Rand Richards
SHORT TAKES RAND RICHARDS COOPER The Steadfast Gaze In Poland, unanswered ques­tions about the war in Ukraine In the main square of Krakow, packed with May Day tourists, a solitary...
Paid articleA symposium on Dobbs
Tushnet, Meghan Sullivan, David Cloutier, Cathleen Kaveny, George Scialabba, Lisa Fullam, Massimo Fa
ARTICLE Meghan Sullivan David Cloutier Cathleen Kaveny George Scialabba Lisa Fullam Massimo Faggioli Eve Tushnet In the two months since the Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v....
Paid articleDecolonizing the Church
McGreevy, John T.
‘No Longer a European Export’ John T. McGreevy How the Church became truly global Quick: Name the countries with the most baptized Catholics. You might guess Brazil (172.2 million) or the...
Paid articleTwo poems from Testament
Siadhail, Micheal O’
POETRY Two Poems from Micheal O’Siadhail’s Testament 30 With mother’s milk the hushaby All will be well no need to cry— O promise me she didn’t lie. Although we know of death’s goodbye, We...
Paid articleUnderstanding Desiderio desideravi
Ferrone, Rita
ARTICLE Earnest Desire Rita Ferrone Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole. Pope Francis’s June 2022 letter on liturgical formation...
Paid articleThe future of Ukraine
Griffiths, Michael C. Kimmage, Adrian Bonenberger, Paul J.
ARTICLE The Future of Ukraine Why Ukraine matters Michael C. Kimmage The United States faces a protract­ed conflict in Ukraine. There is almost no chance of this war ending soon, and it is...
Paid articleBill McKibben
Oleynick, Griffin
INTERVIEW What’s Wrong with the ‘Burbs? An interview with Bill McKibben Griffin Oleynick Author and activist Bill McKibben is one of America’s leading environmentalists. His memoir, The Flag,...
Paid article“This Summer Day”
November, Yehoshua
POETRY THIS SUMMER DAY    Yehoshua November How we know nothing—  have no control over what’s to come.     Our Father in Heaven is kind,  but will He be kind the way we want Him to...
Paid articleReality+ by David J. Chalmers
Schwenkler, John
BOOKS Picture Imperfect JOHN SCHWENKLER Let us begin with Descartes, since arguably it is with him that the present story has its origin. In his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), the...
Paid articleManifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
Sayers, Valerie
BOOKS Bernardine Evaristo Strict Account VALERIE SAYERS Bernardine Evaristo first appeared on many literary radars when her novel Girl, Woman, Other was award­ed the Booker Prize in...
Paid articleThe Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During
West, Michael
Eunuchs & Maidens MICHAEL WEST Once, while interviewing for a job, I told an English depart­ment’s search committee that I would be interested in teaching a class on chastity in...
Paid articleSurviving Solitary by Danielle S. Rudes
Jeffreys, Derek S.
BOOKS End It Now DEREK S. JEFFREYS As Covid case numbers began declining this past spring, I resumed volunteering in a prison after almost two years away. Staff members and inmates told me...
Paid articleLast Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
Hanson, Jack
BOOKS The Dominance of Place JACK HANSON Near where I was raised, there is an island that was used as a training ground for amphibious campaigns during the Second World War. By the time I was...
Paid articleWhen Bad Thinking Happens to Good People by Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro
Brown, Ryan M.
BOOKS An Epidemic of Delusions RYAN M. BROWN “Something is seriously wrong. An alarming number of citi­zens, in America and around the world, are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas.” So...
Paid article“Bats”
Swann, Brian
POETRY BATS Brian Swann are mice who went wrong way back but flapped about, cutting and pasting, adding and taking away, until they got it right, so...
Paid articleWill Arbery’s Corsicana
Walden, Daniel
ARTS DANIEL WALDEN A Power of Refusal Will Arbery’s Corsicana When writing about emerging playwrights, one expects—and indeed welcomes—a certain amount of growth. But even with that...
Paid articleRemembering Thomas C. Cornell
Jordan, Patrick
LAST WORD ‘I Believe in the Beatitudes’ Remembering Thomas C. Cornell PATRICK JORDAN The illustration on the program for the funeral Mass for Thomas C. Cornell said it all. A colorful...
Paid article“Soul Deep”
Fallis, Jeff
POETRY SOUL DEEP Jeff Fallis I wake at five a.m. to find all the streetlights In the neighborhood flashing. There is no explanation. No one else sees it, I have no one to share it...
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