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Ep. 74 - ‘Always Writing, Always Thinking’
Season 1 Episode 74
What do scholars do, exactly? Which virtues does a life of scholarship require?
On this episode, longtime Commonweal contributor and renowned New Tes…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 73 - The Way We Work
Season 1 Episode 73
Since the pandemic began, large numbers of Americans working in diverse fields have reported increased levels of burnout and exhaustion.
But the phen…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 72 - The Right Questions
Season 1 Episode 72
The pandemic has forced many of us to rethink our answers to some of life’s deepest questions: How should we treat other people? Should we practice a…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 71 - Best of 2021
Season 1 Episode 71
It’s our favorite time of year here on the Commonweal Podcast.
On this special episode, we revisit four of our best interviews from 2021:
Phil Klay elu…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 70 - A Book That Builds Community
Season 1 Episode 70
When the first pandemic lockdowns began back in March 2020, acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li took to social media with a modest proposal: a communal readi…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 69 - Violent Faith
Season 1 Episode 69
In 1940, a group of armed, anti-Semitic Catholic militants were arrested by the FBI in Brooklyn and charged with plotting to overthrow the U.S. gover…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 68 - The Varieties of Religious Community Today
Season 1 Episode 68
The November issue of Commonweal featured a special package of stories on Catholic religious communities in the broadest sense of the term, including…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 67 – A Hostile Climate
Season 1 Episode 67
Even as political leaders gather in Glasgow to discuss global solutions to climate change, why is it that the most basic facts of climate science sti…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 66 - Beliefs Made Visible
Season 1 Episode 66
The murder of eleven Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue three years ago in October 2018 was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. histor…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 65 - War Without End
Season 1 Episode 65
Six weeks after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, can we really say that America is no longer a country at war?
On this episode, we’re featuring t…
4 years, 5 months ago