Costică Brădăţan

Costică Brădăţan is a writer and professor. His latest book is In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press).

Atheism is too serious a business to be left to the unbelievers. Unbelief needs the believer’s reflecting gaze to better understand itself.

June 8, 2020

Whether we like it or not, we in the West inhabit a world that remains structured by Christian assumptions and informed by Christian ideas.

September 30, 2019

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A certain kind of obstinate weirdness is a first step to autocracy.

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Culture

Is incentivizing marriage the cure for America's social ills?

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Christopher Hitchens was a champion detractor, a terrific hater, and always more fun to read when he was denouncing than when he was praising.

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Commonweal contributors reflect on Pope Francis’s effort to remake the Church.

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