Paul Moses

2 months ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Alexander Stern |Miles Doyle |Paul Moses |Robert Rubsam

Article A Barbaric Proposal Trump’s call for the ethnic cleaning of Gaza begins a new phase of suffering for Palestinians—and at the worst possible time. Article Turning Our Backs PEPFAR has long been a successful program for treating and preventing HIV. We must not let partisan politics kill it. Article Unchecked and Unbalanced It has taken Donald Trump and Elon Musk less than a month to lead the country into chaos and crisis.

Nov 27, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Christian Göbel |Paul Moses |Stuart Dybek |Michael Peppard

“All generations shall call me blessed,” she correctly predicted in her famous song of prayer, the Magnificat (Luke 1:48). From late antiquity to the present, images of Mary during her miraculous pregnancy, cradling the infant Jesus, suffering at his death, praying at his Ascension, and being crowned heavenly queen have populated Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Whether wandering the countryside of Poland or Costa Rica, you will find her there.

Nov 27, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses |Mary Gordon

For four decades of its century-long history, Commonweal feuded with the Brooklyn Tablet, a diocesan newspaper with a national, right-wing audience drawn by support of 1930s radio preacher Fr. Charles Coughlin and, later, Sen. Joseph McCarthy. To the Tablet and its fiery managing editor, Patrick Scanlan, Commonweal was “masquerading” as a Catholic publication, written by elitists who catered to a secular media that was hostile to the Church.

Oct 1, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses |Peter Quinn |Alexander Stern |George Scialabba

I was skeptical about the federal investigation of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as details leaked out in the news media over the past year. The case involved free airline upgrades—which didn’t seem like the kind of gift that called for the FBI to seize a target’s phone in a street search, as occurred in Adams’s case. I was reminded of the time I covered a trip that New York Mayor Edward Koch took to eastern Europe in 1987.

Aug 26, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic |Kate Lucky

Our technologies, especially emerging ones, hold up a mirror to ourselves. Plato famously critiqued writing because he believed it would impoverish humans’ capacity for memory. And while our innovations have accelerated over the millennia, our questions about who we are have remained mostly the same. Joseph Vukov’sStaying Human in an Era of Artificial Intelligence demonstrates how contemporary discourse about AI reflects perennial accounts of what it means to be human.