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Reading Our Times

What actually is the Common Good? In conversation with Anna Rowlands

Dec 14, 2021
37:10
Nick Spencer speaks to Anna Rowlands about what the Common Good means and what it offers a society like ours.

The Common Good is a remarkably popular phrase, used widely by the left and the right, the religious and the secular. But does it actually mean anything? Is it so elastic as to have no real content?

In this episode, Nick Spencer talks to Anna Rowlands about her new book Towards a Politics of Communion, about what the Common Good means and what it offers a society like ours.

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