Dominic Preziosi

Latest article, with Tim Healy. Thanks to DocumentedNY for publishing it.

Advent Calendars Gone Wild Can Advent calendars stuffed with hot sauce, stuffed animals, and panties still stir feelings of anticipation and mystery?

Advent is not a 12-day season of buying yourself more stuff. My rant--I mean, column:

www.commonwealmagazine.org/advent-calen...

Hello (Again), My Father Susan Cheever has made a kind of cottage industry of debunking her father’s carefully maintained image.

"Cheever may well owe his daughter a belated apology. But admitting that doesn’t do much for those of us coming to this book hoping for new insights."

Anthony Giardina on Susan Cheever's latest book for @commonweal.bsky.social

www.commonwealmagazine.org/susan-john-c...

Brooklyn man acknowledges

Jealous girlfriend meme with Donald Trump smiling at Zohran Mamdani and Stephen Miller looking jealous

Trump: anything else pal?

Zohran: I dunno you want to sink the GOP nominee for governor?

Trump: no problem!

Extrajudicial executions, extortionate tariffs, multibillion-dollar bailouts: the editors of @commonweal.bsky.social on Trump's thuggish, self-aggrandizing, know-nothing actions in Latin America

Graham Greene to Salman Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses:

"Rush-die! Come and sit here and tell me how you managed to make so much trouble! I never made nearly as much trouble as that!'"

Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.

My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Good reporting and analysis here from @heidischlumpf.bsky.social. What still feels lacking to me is an emphasis on Catholic doctrine, not just emotions. The Church's teaching has a LOT to say about what justice requires when it comes to respecting immigrants' human rights. I want them to teach it.

William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs

Utterly delightful piece by Dan Barry about catching up with a sharply dressed William Kennedy, now a spry 97 years old, at a fundraising event in Albany! He remembers his mother's excitement when FDR won the presidential election in '36. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...

@paulbmoses.bsky.social on Paul Elie's latest for @commonweal.bsky.social

Phenomenal article that advances a great perspective.

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Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...

Yes Prayer in Schools

No Prayer in Protests

I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Bishop Robert... @Bishop... • 28m g • • • I did not criticize the administration. My comments were pastoral, not political. I simply asked that detained Catholics have access to the sacraments—a request met with openness from federal officials. Ruth Graham @publicroad • 2h New from me: Two bishops with ties to Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration's treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this wee...

I did not criticize the administration. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I criticized the administration.

“Integralists for Joe Biden” was a good joke; “Integralists for Andrew Cuomo” is a better one.

Meet Zohran Mamdani’s favorite NYC high school teacher Marc Kagan shares his memories teaching Zohran Mamdani at Bronx Science.

Friendly reminder that we never know who’s sitting in our classrooms out here

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg A blizzard of outside spending on ads, including a spot that linked Zohran Mamdani to 9/11, failed to move voters and may have even backfired.

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

Attendance has dropped at Chicago schools in communities with increased immigration enforcement.

Chalkbeat reports: blockclubchi.co/43hlTBr

I wrote about the decline of inner life in the latest issue of @commonweal.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/inner-life-t...

Lead with beauty!

Cuomo, ever so gracious

Cuomo still mispronounces the name of the guy who beat him twice

Opinion | The ‘Sewer Socialism’ of Zohran Mamdani

Why did the attacks on Mamdani’s socialism fail? A key reason: He made clear he was a “sewer socialist,” a forgotten American tradition created by left-wing mayors who asked to be judged not by theories but by whether they deliver public services effectively & fairly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

AOC should absolutely primary Schumer in ‘28.

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.