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Comment is one of the core publications of Cardus, a think tank devoted to renewing North American social architecture, rooted in 2000 years of Christian social thought. In our print and online essays and reviews we zoom in on the multiple components that make up this “social architecture”: the institutions that serve as the scaffolding and skeleton of social life. We’ve been doing this since 1983

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“Finding ourselves alone, we give ourselves a sense of belonging by owning things, but in so doing we put up more barrie...
08/28/2026

“Finding ourselves alone, we give ourselves a sense of belonging by owning things, but in so doing we put up more barriers and find ourselves even more alone.”

A new book by Ian Marcus Corbin diagnoses our loneliness and calls us back to belonging and community.

“Is there a way to pursue our academic vocations that feels less like a frenetic standstill and more like care for the f...
08/28/2026

“Is there a way to pursue our academic vocations that feels less like a frenetic standstill and more like care for the fragile complexities of our living-and-dying institutions?”

A look at the mortality of institutions of higher education.

“The mistaken if implicit premise beneath the work of bridging has always been the conflation of partisan polarization w...
08/27/2026

“The mistaken if implicit premise beneath the work of bridging has always been the conflation of partisan polarization with the culture war.”

John Wood Jr. reflects on Comment’s Understory festival and why our divides run deeper than party.

Reflections on The Understory Festival and the Movement to Bridge the Divide

“Lacking communities of participation, we direct our innate longing for them into owning things in such a way that we lo...
08/27/2026

“Lacking communities of participation, we direct our innate longing for them into owning things in such a way that we lose connection instead of gaining it. Rather than belonging to communities, we belong to possessions.”

Terence Sweeney reviews Ian Marcus Corbin’s To Arrive Where We Started.

A new book by Ian Marcus Corbin diagnoses our loneliness and calls us back to belonging and community.

“Neither we nor our institutions are sovereign, autonomous entities but are creatures enmeshed in systems that both prop...
08/27/2026

“Neither we nor our institutions are sovereign, autonomous entities but are creatures enmeshed in systems that both propel and warp us.”

Craig Mattson on the mortality of institutions of higher education.

A look at the mortality of institutions of higher education.

“Pilgrims look for the places on earth into which the holy has leaked from heaven. Like radiation, it seeps into matter ...
08/20/2026

“Pilgrims look for the places on earth into which the holy has leaked from heaven. Like radiation, it seeps into matter and stays there, charging.”

Brad East on wayfaring through France in search of the holy.

Last summer Brad East went on pilgrimage to France with his brothers and a couple friends. This is his account.

“If heavy states can be chemically lifted, what becomes of the self that was to undergo them?”Jacob Potash on antidepres...
08/20/2026

“If heavy states can be chemically lifted, what becomes of the self that was to undergo them?”

Jacob Potash on antidepressants and the questions waiting on the far side of relief.

Recovering the history of sorrow can give a clearer view of the compromises we live with.

“In the melancholic tradition, darkness and depth are not opposites; they are two vantages on one phenomenon.”Jacob Pota...
08/20/2026

“In the melancholic tradition, darkness and depth are not opposites; they are two vantages on one phenomenon.”

Jacob Potash on the history of sorrow and the compromises we live with.

Recovering the history of sorrow can give a clearer view of the compromises we live with.

“Archaeologists suppose time’s arrow runs in one direction only. Pilgrims know time bends around the resurrection.”Brad ...
08/20/2026

“Archaeologists suppose time’s arrow runs in one direction only. Pilgrims know time bends around the resurrection.”

Brad East on relics, saints, and pilgrimage through France.

Last summer Brad East went on pilgrimage to France with his brothers and a couple friends. This is his account.

“In the melancholic tradition, darkness and depth are not opposites; they are two vantages on one phenomenon.”Jacob Pota...
08/20/2026

“In the melancholic tradition, darkness and depth are not opposites; they are two vantages on one phenomenon.”

Jacob Potash on the meanings of melancholy.

Recovering the history of sorrow can give a clearer view of the compromises we live with.

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