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The Anti-Human 44.1 | Spring 2026

The Anti-Human 44.1 | Spring 2026

Purchase a single copy of our spring 2026 issue. A strange hesitation has entered our public life: not whether humanity will survive, but whether it should. Across technology, bioethics, environmental discourse, and political imagination, the human is increasingly...

The Understory 44.2 | Summer 2026

The Understory 44.2 | Summer 2026

Purchase a single copy of our summer 2026 issue. We tend to measure a forest by the height of its trees. But the understory, that tangled layer of saplings and wildflowers growing in dappled light, is where the forest’s future quietly takes root. It holds the soil,...

Privacy 43.1 | Spring 2025

Privacy 43.1 | Spring 2025

Purchase a single copy of our spring 2025 issue. From monastic cells to browser windows, urban planning to biotech labs, our notions of and norms around private and public are in flux. This issue of Comment takes many of our inherited assumptions about privacy—both...

The Call to Forgive 42.4 | Winter 2024

The Call to Forgive 42.4 | Winter 2024

Purchase a single copy of our winter 2024 issue. Over the last few years, Comment has heard a certain question recur with curious frequency. This question pops up, usually, in conversation with those who are worried about democracy’s future, who foresee the chances...

Are We Really in Decline? 42.3 | Fall 2024

Are We Really in Decline? 42.3 | Fall 2024

Purchase a single copy of our fall 2024 issue. Where is history headed? How any one of us answers this question says a lot about our sensibilities, our teleology, and our hope. And while narratives of decline abound this 2024, they diverge significantly in terms...

Searching for Home 42.2 | Summer 2024

Searching for Home 42.2 | Summer 2024

Purchase a single copy of our summer 2024 issue. Home. The source of so much longing, yet also often the site of pain accumulated over lifetimes of loss and alienation. What’s going on in the late modern era that “home” feels so elusive? What is home, actually?...

Violence 42.1 | Spring 2024

Violence 42.1 | Spring 2024

Purchase a single copy of our spring 2024 issue. Is it possible for peace to walk in power anymore? This is the question of this issue. An exploding Middle East, a West on tenterhooks, many of us are holding our breath. Humans properly fear violence, all forms of it....

Church, Where Are You? 41.4 | Winter 2023

Church, Where Are You? 41.4 | Winter 2023

Purchase a single copy of our winter 2023 issue. It’s no secret that the church, like every other traditional institution in late modernity, is struggling. Its impoverished public witness in recent years, the lack of vision and compromised credibility, reveals soil...

Gender and Our Humanity 41.3 | Fall 2023

Gender and Our Humanity 41.3 | Fall 2023

Purchase a single copy of our fall 2023 issue. There is no question that gender has moved toward the centre of the culture war in North America. But do we understand what is at stake when gender becomes one more choice among many? This issue of Comment desires to...

Seedbeds of Social Change 41.2 | Summer 2023

Seedbeds of Social Change 41.2 | Summer 2023

Purchase a single copy of our summer 2023 issue. What creates a new era? What are the nutrients in those seedbeds that become nourishers of redemptive history? Comment and our accompanying podcast The Whole Person Revolution have undertaken a six-month exploration of...