Dominic Preziosi

1 week ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Dominic Preziosi |Stephen Pope |George Scialabba |Helen Rouner

An acquaintance employed by a Catholic university recently expressed frustration at the lack of a collective response from Catholic higher education to the Trump administration’s assault on academic freedom, due process, and human dignity. Surely a joint statement—clear about convictions and obligations, cosigned by Catholic university presidents—would send a message. I was sympathetic to the idea.

1 month ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Miles Doyle |Isabella Simon |Bernard G. Prusak |Dominic Preziosi

Article The clock is ticking, and the American public is sending a message that they want someone to do something. Getting the Message Article Cutting and Undercutting Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well. Article More, or Else Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of a progressive future in which Democrats stop getting in their own way.

2 months ago | catholicoutlook.org | Dominic Preziosi

New York cardinal Timothy Dolan was straight-faced while telling Fox’s Maria Bartiromo in December that Donald Trump “takes his Christian faith seriously.” This would have been news to anyone who’s paid attention to Trump the past several decades. Bartiromo then opined that Trump’s narrow miss from a would-be assassin’s bullet last summer could only have been “God’s work.” No argument from Dolan.

2 months ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Miles Doyle |Dominic Preziosi |Anton Barba-Kay |Max Foley-Keene

Article Gross Pay The extraordinary work of inmate firefighters in Los Angeles has called attention to the plight of incarcerated workers across the country. Article A Serious Man There is reason to think that Cardinal Robert McElroy might serve as a moral counterexample to the new Trump administration. Article The Attention Trap The idealized image of attention as control is not so much a virtue as a phantom or mirage of one.

Jan 24, 2025 | commonwealmagazine.org | Dominic Preziosi |Santiago Ramos |Vanessa R. Corcoran |Jonathan Malesic

New York cardinal Timothy Dolan was straight-faced while telling Fox’s Maria Bartiromo in December that Donald Trump “takes his Christian faith seriously.” This would have been news to anyone who’s paid attention to Trump the past several decades. Bartiromo then opined that Trump’s narrow miss from a would-be assassin’s bullet last summer could only have been “God’s work.” No argument from Dolan.