Tag : Common Good

Restrictions of Speech and the Loss of Common Interest

Written on Sep, 03, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Moral Theology | Leave a comment

If you’re organizing out of some common interest, you can have lively debates about what to do, how things work, who’s right and wrong, and even core aspects of your intellectual paradigm. But if your only standard for membership in your power coalition is detailed adherence to your ideology, as is increasingly true for membership in elite circles, then it …

Coercion, Paternalism, and The Common Good

Written on Feb, 15, 2018 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Moral Theology | Leave a comment

In his recent review of The Once and Future Liberal for The Gospel Coalition, [author and former Obama White House staffer, Michael] Wear (sort of) critiques identity politics, lamenting the fact that “identity politics empowers people to speak for others without their consent.” Yet in the same article he suggests, “We ought to see our fates as inextricably linked with …

For Consideration: Identity Politics and the Idea of the Common Good

Written on Aug, 13, 2017 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Moral Theology | Leave a comment

Conservatives complain loudest about today’s campus follies, but it is really liberals who should be angry. The big story is not that leftist professors successfully turn millions of young people into dangerous political radicals every year. It is that they have gotten students so obsessed with their personal identities that, by the time they graduate, they have much less interest …