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Ep. 80 - McMorrow’s Way
Season 1 Episode 80
On April 19, Mallory McMorrow, Democratic State Senator of Michigan, delivered a speech in the chamber of the Michigan State Capitol. It instantly st…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 79 - Beyond Consent
Season 1 Episode 79
As the #MeToo movement was unfolding, Washington Post columnist Christine Emba began asking questions about the broader health of American sexual cul…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 78 - Unholy War
Season 1 Episode 78
While the humanitarian costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to make headlines, the war also reveals contemporary religious concerns around …
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 77 - Democracy or Empire?
Season 1 Episode 77
It’s been three weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky continues to plead for Western aid, the situation…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 76 - Will Catholic Colleges Embrace Synodality?
Season 1 Episode 76
Why haven’t Catholic colleges and universities in the United States more urgently engaged Pope Francis’s repeated calls to practice “synodality”?
Afte…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 75 - Love Entails Loss
Season 1 Episode 75
Shortly before the death of her father, New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz met the woman she would marry. These opposite experiences prompted Sch…
4 years, 7 months ago
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, 8 months 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago