Peter Quinn

Oct 7, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Eduardo M. Peñalver |Peter Quinn |George Scialabba

By some measures, political polarization in the United States is as pronounced today as it has been at any moment since the Civil War. As Rachel Kleinfeld recently observed, no wealthy, mature democracy has been as polarized, and for as long, as the United States. As a result of this polarization, people who disagree politically have stopped engaging with one another—or, at least, stopped engaging productively.

Oct 1, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Massimo Faggioli |Peter Quinn |George Scialabba

“If [Henrik] Ibsen was a feminist, then I am a bishop,” James Joyce quipped in regard to what some contended were the social messages of Henrik Ibsen plays like A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler. I wonder what Joyce might say today about the Catholics (bishops and the pope among them) attempting to strike feminist positions on the role of women in the Church as the second assembly of the Synod gets underway.

Mar 28, 2024 | irishecho.com | Jay Mwamba |Peter Quinn

Happy Easter News March 28, 2024 by Irish Echo Staff Pic of Day: Easter is approaching and this home in Kilcullen, County Kildare is reminding one and all that it is. Photo by Eamonn Farrell, RollingNews.ie.

Mar 12, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Baumann |Peter Quinn |George Scialabba

Fintan O’Toole is a terrific writer, and his We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland is a remarkable chronicle of the economic, political, cultural, and religious transformation of his native country over the six decades since his birth in 1958. O’Toole has been a prominent journalist, drama critic, and prolific author for years, and now splits his time between Dublin and Princeton University.

Jul 24, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Matthew Rose |Peter Quinn |George Scialabba

Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free issue discussion guide. Robert Bellah was the last major thinker on the American Left to argue that shared religious beliefs are essential for democratic politics. In an era that saw liberalism grow progressively more secular, he defended views that dissented from elite opinion and the models of reality on which it rested.