We Have Put Individualism Ahead of the Common Good for Too Long 10 minute read The US flag flies at half mast outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 29, 2023.

What common-good judges must do, he says, is “ read into the majestic generalities and ambiguities of the written Constitution” (italics mine) the principles he favors.

Social Good and Corporations The decision of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the sixth-wealthiest person in the world (as of July 18, 2024), to allocate a significant sum of his wealth to solving ...

The common good is associated with many other goal-related paradoxes. For example, as observed by Sluga (2014), we can speak of the common good in the language of justice, freedom, security, order ...

He called upon Americans to put aside an “uncivil war” and to find common ground for the public good. His speech was imbued with references to ethical principles, such as justice, fairness, truth and ...

Common-good constitutionalism draws inspiration from the early modern theory of ragion di stato— “ reason of state,” which, despite the connotations that have become attached to its name, is ...

A version of this story appeared in the Aug 16-29, 2024 print issue under the headline: The Tour de France has ended — but cycling's example of the common good lives on.

Regarding David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman’s “The Temptation of the ‘Common Good’” (op-ed, July 24): There is always a temptation to seek a shortcut around the hard work of politics and ...

Explaining Common-Good Originalism Does Not Help Its Case Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940. Oil on canvas.(Public domain/via Wikimedia) ...

On Independence Day, Let’s Reclaim Independence from the ‘Fourth Branch’ I recently debated Josh Hammer of Newsweek on his vision of “common-good conservatism,” and while you can watch ...