Commonweal Institute Blog

The Common Good. There has been a lot of buzz around this phrase the “common good” ever since President Bill Clinton’s speech in Georgetown last week. President Clinton laid out an alternative philosophy for progressives around this notion of the common good. Well we’re thrilled! Since the Commonweal Institute was founded in 2001, our raison d’etre (as well as our tagline) has been “advancing ideas for the common good.”

Could this simple notion be the string theory of progressivism – the unifying equation that holds us all together? As we know that devices such as alliteration and repetition help ideas to become “sticky” (in Malcolm Gladwell’s words), I would add common good…common ground…commonsense.

More on the common good (and Commonweal) coming soon...