Finding the Constitution's Common Good
Conservatives of all stripes, including the increasingly large number of former liberals who have been mugged by educational intolerance, Critical Race Theory, and transgender ideology, should welcome a public conversation that is rooted in a politics and constitutionalism of the common good.
However much we may disagree about the content of the common good, any sane articulation of it will necessarily repudiate despotism. Bertrand de Jouvenel is strikingly clear in his observation that “radical individualism and despotism both share the same perverse premise: There can be no good held in common by human beings.”
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