This year's Common Good Symposium featured student work over the past year, in classes and out, around Maine and across the world. The uniting feature among the diverse projects was a commitment to ...

Common good are those things that emphasize community as compared to individual good which emphasizes self. Every level of civic society - national, state and local - needs common good to negotiate ...

As chronicled in countless news stories and reports, trust in social institutions is low. The integrity and transparency of these institutions gets a bad grade from the public, and social institutions ...

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 ...

Three people wearing shirts that say "Volunteers," stand behind a table with bottled water, boxes labeled as medicine. Image by RDNE Stock Project via Pexels. In this essay I’d like to look at what’s ...