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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

. Thanks to our donors and patrons over the decades, Comment has spoken public theology from the time of the Cold War to today.

“Athletic performance is an instantiation of grace: something at once violent, unexpected, and terrifying, but always or...
11/08/2025

“Athletic performance is an instantiation of grace: something at once violent, unexpected, and terrifying, but always ordered toward an elegance that could not have been predicted yet nonetheless makes sense.”

Sport and competition form the human person for good, and can even become an instantiation of grace.

“The kingdom of God isn’t built on legacy or good taste, and its visualization isn’t limited to one style or era. It ope...
11/08/2025

“The kingdom of God isn’t built on legacy or good taste, and its visualization isn’t limited to one style or era. It opens outward.”

A look at the role patrons of the arts play in helping catalyze or control cultural production.

“Mystical quietude differs from aesthetic calm: past a literary technique, it is an existential practice, a schooling of...
11/08/2025

“Mystical quietude differs from aesthetic calm: past a literary technique, it is an existential practice, a schooling of desire and attention. The silence of the mystics baptizes speech, allowing language to be born of awe.”

Silence is banished in the modern world, but it provides the conditions for life and art to flourish.

“We speak often of institutional trauma, the wounds they inflict on us. But this year has revealed the other side of the...
11/08/2025

“We speak often of institutional trauma, the wounds they inflict on us. But this year has revealed the other side of the coin, one that many of us have not quite seen before: institutions themselves in trauma, stripped of the very tissue that gives them life—the public’s trust.”

Institutional trust is down, but we still long for the goods institutions bring.

“Institutions do not simply organize work. At their best they cultivate the conditions for character, channelling power ...
11/07/2025

“Institutions do not simply organize work. At their best they cultivate the conditions for character, channelling power toward service and shaping desire toward the common good.”

Institutional trust is down, but we still long for the goods institutions bring.

“For those becoming allergic to good news or dabbling in despair, skepticism metastasizes quickly. We have too few rivet...
11/07/2025

“For those becoming allergic to good news or dabbling in despair, skepticism metastasizes quickly. We have too few riveting portraits of life to the full and conviction-led, justice-serious, costly self-risking.”

Portraits of steadfast conviction.

“Identity is not discovered or created; it is established. And as we are uprooted from day-to-day relational commitments...
11/07/2025

“Identity is not discovered or created; it is established. And as we are uprooted from day-to-day relational commitments, values, and practices, not only do we lose these networks of meaning, but we lose self-intelligibility too.”

What is our true self? Where do we find identity? Kevin Brown argues that what we seek in identity is durability, roots, and obligation.

“In Kyoto, the remnant flickers in those who remain at the table, not because they are certain, but because they find th...
11/07/2025

“In Kyoto, the remnant flickers in those who remain at the table, not because they are certain, but because they find themselves on a stage of brief relevance, willing to outlast their own expectations in the quiet tension of those who just keep showing up.”

The Fujimuras review "Kyoto," a play that shows the complexities and complicities of climate policy.

“Is there such a thing as a populism of solidarity? A populism that is less like wildfire and more like a construction c...
11/07/2025

“Is there such a thing as a populism of solidarity? A populism that is less like wildfire and more like a construction crew?”

Amber Lapp journeys to the Rural Revival festival.

Amber Lapp attends the Rural Revival Festival and finds hope for a populism that brings people together rather than dividing them.

“Silence is a human inheritance. It is the ground where thought clarifies, where prayer ripens, where friendship deepens...
11/07/2025

“Silence is a human inheritance. It is the ground where thought clarifies, where prayer ripens, where friendship deepens. Even politics needs stillness: Václav Havel described the power of the powerless as a refusal to participate in lies, a silence that carried more truth than many speeches.”

Silence is banished in the modern world, but it provides the conditions for life and art to flourish.

“The very conditions that allow private museums to operate with disinterested aesthetic freedom, unconcerned with popula...
11/07/2025

“The very conditions that allow private museums to operate with disinterested aesthetic freedom, unconcerned with popularity or ticket sales, are themselves products of an unequal global economy.”

A look at the role patrons of the arts play in helping catalyze or control cultural production.

“The work quietude performs is subtle but steady: it threshes wheat from chaff, desire from distraction. It teaches us t...
11/06/2025

“The work quietude performs is subtle but steady: it threshes wheat from chaff, desire from distraction. It teaches us to speak more slowly, to choose words as though they mattered, to withhold judgment long enough for truth to ripen.”

Silence is banished in the modern world, but it provides the conditions for life and art to flourish.

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