I experienced a bit of shock recently while attending a conference hosted by the Napa Institute. I was listening to J. D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio and the author of Hillbilly Elegy. In his interview on the conference’s final evening, Vance attacked Republican support for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on “fraternity and social friendship,” will generate work for theologians for some time. Continue Reading »
Only a philosophically coherent account of the American common good will save us from our descent into ideological incoherence.
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Human dignity can only be truly defended by embracing the primacy of the common good. Continue Reading »
As the new year begins, conservative lawmakers in numerous states have started a fresh attempt to push back against the LGBT agenda. Continue Reading »
The common good is not a euphemism for tyranny, and oppression is not a synonym for order. Continue Reading »
Senator Marco Rubio is thinking beyond mere macroeconomic metrics to place human dignity at the core of America’s political economy. Continue Reading »
Currency is an index of our need for one another, but can pose a danger to the polis when it becomes an object of desire in itself. Continue Reading »
A review of Jake Meador's In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World. Continue Reading »
A new commission should reaffirm the traditional place of human rights in American policy-making. Continue Reading »
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