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American Charisms: A conversation with 'Spellbound' author Molly Worthen
Season 1 Episode 2
Hosts and Commonweal contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor discuss Spellbound : How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Christianity's American Fate
Hosts and Commonweal contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor introduce the podcast and discuss the book Christianity's American Fate: Ho…
9 months, 1 week ago
An End-of-the-Year Message
Editor Dominic Preziosi updates listeners of The Commonweal Podcast.
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Counterweight: MAGA vs. the World
Season 1 Episode 157
A central tenet of the MAGA movement is the Trump administration's "America First" foreign-policy agenda. To fulfill this agenda, it has slashed fore…
1 year ago
Ep. 156 - The Counterweight: The Common Good & American Liberalism
Season 1 Episode 156
A little more than eight months into the second Trump presidency, many Americans today find the United States increasingly unrecognizable: a volatile…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep. 155 - The Counterweight: Against White Christian Nationalism
Season 1 Episode 155
One of the most prominent features of the second Trump administration has been its bluntly racist actions and policymaking.
Recent examples abound, …
1 year, 2 months ago
Ep. 154 - The Counterweight: Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching
Since becoming pope, Leo XIV has reminded us that the Catholic Church “offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching.” That tradition is esp…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ep. 153 - It’s Just Wrong
Season 1 Episode 153
For decades, public support for the death penalty in the United States has been declining. But in recent years, the number of executions has risen sh…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep. 152 - Crypto-Religiosity
Season 1 Episode 152
It’s often remarked that America has become less religious, especially during recent decades. But what if that religiosity hasn’t disappeared, but ju…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ep. 151 - The First U.S. Pontiff
Season 1 Episode 151
The swift elevation to the papacy of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost—known simply as ‘Bob’ among his fellow Augustinian friars—defied pu…
1 year, 4 months ago