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 ...

Perhaps this is because, for too long, we have answered the question “Whom should the economy serve?” with “the few” rather ...

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 ...

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 ...

The common good is taking a beating. Economic inequality, to cite only the most important measure of social health, has accelerated dramatically in the U.S. since the early 1980s. One percent of the U ...

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, ...

“Common-good capitalism” is all the rage these days with national conservatives. But what exactly is it, you may ask? That’s a good question. As far as I can tell, it’s a lovely-sounding name for ...

Last time, in this space, we looked at the first pillar of Catholic social teaching: the dignity of the human person. This is a concept that is easily familiar to many Catholics, particularly since it ...

The protection of our private liberties depends in no small part on our attention to the commonwealth. We are, it seems, in the age of the “common good” wars. Florida senator Marco Rubio helped launch ...

"Common good capitalism" is all the rage these days with national conservatives. But what exactly is it, you may ask? That's a good question. As far as I can tell, it's a lovely sounding name for ...

Pope Francis called on nations to work toward a global common good Thursday, particularly in confronting climate change, human trafficking, and nuclear threats. "In the current situation of ...