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Dec 4, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Rand Richards Cooper
What explains the enduring popularity of movies about the pope, and particularly about becoming the pope?
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Dominic Preziosi |Rand Richards Cooper |Regina Munch |Zach Czaia
Article Not Going Back The 2024 election has shown definitively that what ails us as a country is a chronic condition, not a passing distemper. Article 2024 Election: Street View “You can’t move!” John protested. “We have work to do.” Article The Normies Take Flight The Democratic Party has to find a way not to be the party of bicoastal elites.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Dominic Preziosi |Griffin Oleynick |Regina Munch |Rand Richards Cooper
Article 2024 Election: Street View “You can’t move!” John protested. “We have work to do.” Article Down, not Done “For now, I am holding it together by redoubling my commitment to living in a way that cuts against Trump’s cynicism, fear mongering, and braggadocio.” Article We Can’t Disengage We have to fight for the good of everyone in this country, quelling their well-founded fears and showing the way out of unfounded ones.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
booktrib.com | Rand Richards Cooper
The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award is an annual honor bestowed on a work of fiction that tells an American story in a distinctly American voice. Supported by the generosity of novelist David Baldacci, and administered by the Mark Twain House & Museum, the MTAVL awards a prize of $25,000 to the winning author. Last year’s honoree was Jennifer Haigh, for her novel, Mercy Street.
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May 28, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Rand Richards Cooper |Gareth Dale |Alice McDermott |Phil Christman
Ours is a boom time for anxiety. Still reeling from a global pandemic, we now face the advent of avian flu. The world is embroiled in brutal wars, AI is steadily usurping all human functions, students and police clash on college campuses, our cities teem with the unhoused, our southern border hosts a never-ending human tragedy. All that, and an unhinged grifter is running for president—again—on an “Elect a Dictator!” platform. Anyone feeling a tad worried about the future?
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
dartmouthalumnimagazine.com | Rand Richards Cooper
Moose Morse is no typical Dartmouth junior. It’s not even clear that he is a junior. He started college in 2016, but he didn’t begin his second term until spring 2018, and his third term in 2020. Today, as his original classmates start thinking about their fifth reunion, Morse, 27, continues his slow trek toward an engineering degree. He doesn’t expect to graduate until 2029, thanks to his 13-year college plan.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | James Chappel |Anna Ballan |Rand Richards Cooper
Rose Is a RoseThank you for David Mills’s reflection on Ann Schmalstieg Barrett’s arresting painting of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (“A No-Nonsense Thérèse,” January 2024). Like the painting you so beautifully reproduce, St. Thérèse Martin was a force to be reckoned with. In one of the most important and powerful theological examinations of Thérèse and her significance (The Hidden Face, 1959), Ida F. Görres tells of her own initial encounter with a photograph of Thérèse.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Miles Doyle |James Chappel |Anna Ballan |Rand Richards Cooper
In May 2023, the state of Oregon quietly broke with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Covid-related quarantine recommendations. Rather than asking infected Oregonians to isolate at home for at least five days, the Oregon Health Authority allowed people infected with Covid to break isolation as soon as they were fever-free for at least twenty-four hours without the aid of medication.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Lawrence Joseph |James Chappel |Anna Ballan |Rand Richards Cooper
It is this that is intended, an execution regime death row prisoners must propose an alternative killing method preferred to lethal injection, prison officials providing forms to opt-in for suffocation.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Lee Oser |James Chappel |Anna Ballan |Rand Richards Cooper
Over the flaking tideThe ferry creeps to the dock. Its braggy bullhorn tapsThe lighthouse like an egg. The lighthouse sweeps its funnel—Oak loom in relief,Stitching and repairingStem and branch and leaf. Whisky clears the visionAnd helps the Dippers steer:The pilot twists the bottleAnd squints to find the pier. Gently by the buoy,To the tune of grunt and glug,He juggles with both hornAnd helm and emerald dug. From lips that cannot kiss: Hail Mary! and he’s home.
