JD Vance Isn’t the Only One With a Provocative Vision

By Damon Linker and John Guida

Mr. Linker, a former columnist at The Week, writes the newsletter Notes From the Middleground. Mr. Guida is an editor in Times Opinion.

It is a concept that goes back to the ancient Greeks and has, in the abstract at least, an innocuous name. And yet it also pretty consistently provokes political brawls — and has again today.

The concept is the “common good.” It is most........

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