Melissa Wheeler has previously received philanthropic funding to conduct research on responsible leadership. Naomi Baes has previously worked with the Australian Leadership Index to research ...

In the more than two centuries since Joseph McKeen first introduced the idea that graduates of Bowdoin College were under 'peculiar obligation' to exert their talents for the 'benefit of society,' an ...

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 ...

I’ve always been impressed that the preamble to the Constitution begins, “We the People of the United States.” We’ve heard the phrase so often that we don’t even stop to think about it. But as the ...

President Clinton and CAP panel examine the “common good” foundations of American politics and society at Georgetown Univ. event. President Bill Clinton and a panel of experts convened yesterday at ...

Against a backdrop of irresponsible leadership and distrust of institutions, there is a pervasive sense among the citizens of many countries that they are not well served by authorities and the ...

We who describe ourselves as conservatives have our work cut out for us. This is not true merely because of the policies of the current presidential administration, or the increasingly radical stances ...

What is the greatest challenge facing the world today? The answer from Arturo Sosa, S.J., superior general of the Society of Jesus, may surprise you: “In my opinion, the greatest challenge is that ...

Reverend Jim Wallis is the founder and president of Sojourners and the author of America’s Original Sin. There is an ancient idea that we have lost, but can and should find again. It’s called simply ...

On March 31, 2020, when the United States was on Covid-19 lockdown, The Atlantic published “Beyond Originalism,” a cerebral essay by the Harvard Law professor C. Adrian C. Vermeule ’90. The essay ...

Serious cracks are beginning to appear in the capacity of our communities and ecosystems to sustain our well-being (Lovelock, 2009). In the context of concerns about the end of a safe operating space ...