Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) examines the state of U.S. politics, culture, and life in his latest book, released Tuesday, ...

In this era of narcissistic leaders and misplaced values, it seems more important than ever to honor those who work for the ...

In early May, the McKeen Center held its eighteenth annual Bowdoin and the Common Good Symposium to spotlight the many ways people at Bowdoin have contributed to, supported, and learned from ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good ...

It's too early to calculate the price of the pandemic. To date, more than 600,000 Americans have died and over 34 million have gotten sick. Economists estimate trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, ...

As chronicled in countless news stories and reports, trust in social institutions is low. The integrity and transparency of these institutions gets a bad grade from the public, and social institutions ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Conservatives are once again debating the nature of the political common good. This is salutary, for no political ...

On changes in the American conservative movement. Anyone observing the evolution of conservative thought over the past few years could not have escaped a growing trend. Politicians, intellectuals, and ...

Although the concept of the common good has been subject to normative theorising for millennia, it is now widely understood as an "essentially contested concept," leading scholars to argue that, in ...

Three people wearing shirts that say "Volunteers," stand behind a table with bottled water, boxes labeled as medicine. Image by RDNE Stock Project via Pexels. In this essay I’d like to look at what’s ...

References to the common good are, well, quite common these days. It seems the common good is everywhere. Apparently, it’s a medical research company in Australia. It’s a single-use, plastic packaging ...

“I’ve never been where the discussion of the middle-ground was,” said Claire Pacer, a first-year student from Wheaton, Illinois. Where Pacer grew up, she says, “it was a lot of black and white, here’s ...