The idea of the common good has been making a comeback in our political discourse. While the left is embroiled in debates over which interest group should be given the keys to political power, small enclaves on the right are rediscovering the common good as an end of political life.
Although this project has met cries of Leninism and collectivism, reorienting our politics around the common good is undoubtedly a healthy impulse. The belief that politics exists to secure the good of the nation as a whole, after all, is a return to the way Americans used to think and talk about politics.
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