Can I still keep using this Catholic education to understand the world if I’m no longer Catholic? Can I even still ask the curriculum’s questions if I’m no longer professing the faith that animates them?

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are. Alienation makes us present as closeness cannot.

All of Bruce Chatwin’s work is an effort to understand people who find themselves at the end of a way of being.

In the wake of a refugee crisis from ongoing civil war in Burma, organizations educating stateless refugees in Thailand make do under severe strain.

Scott Cairns is a strong Christian poet because his poems animate the “unexpected dangers / and elations” of a life of prayer and worship.

Musa al-Gharbi’s new book traces the rise of a new “woke” elite. His diagnosis minimizes the power of genuine elites: plutocrats.

The Cybertruck is the vehicular love child of a SWAT truck and the Mars rover.

The Trump administration’s decision to send migrants to Guantánamo was dehumanizing “performance art.”

Why do startup bros need the alibi of poetry to launch their great extraction machines?

Carl Elliott’s new book documents the stories of whistleblowers who report abuses in the medical system—and asks bigger questions about why so many don’t.

Trump’s call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza begins a new phase of suffering for Palestinians—and at the worst possible time.

The Trump administration hopes not only to deport migrants, but also to make them feel so unsafe they no longer participate actively in our communities.

PEPFAR has long been a successful program for treating and preventing HIV. We must not let partisan politics kill it.

Bob Menendez lost the moral compass that once saved him.