Tag: common good

In the balance, Hayhoe’s book makes a positive contribution to the climate conversation. The book encourages dialogue rather than hectoring. In that sense, though the targeted topic is climate change, Hayhoe’s advice is good for any sort of persuasive argument.

In times of crisis a common fear can elicit behavior that appears similar to actions born of a commitment to the common good.

Perhaps this crisis, while revealing the fragility of many aspects of American society, can at the same time provide opportunities for a recovery.

To be isolated from one another, and in particular from those third places where the rich possibilities of community are most regularly realized strains urban interdependence as nothing else.

Jake Meador’s In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World is a remarkably successful attempt to bring together the core teachings of Christianity and the community-centered practices of an economic life less dependent on global capitalism.

It can be discouraging watching people vie for political power. That they are motivated by a concern for our good is often hard to...

Japanese rail commuters ride train station escalators the way you might expect: those who are in no hurry stand to the right, leaving a...

In his new book, Ralph Nader argues that the Left and the Right should unite against the economic and political establishment in the Center.

Lucky me, to be invited to try the beta version of Google’s newest and coolest app — Séance! After a quick download and install, I...

A thing without proper limits becomes its own opposite, and benevolence quickly becomes a tyranny which threatens both civil and religious order.