The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene salaries made by CEOs who are increasing profits by moving their plants to places where labor is cheap - that's where the problem is, not in schools, colleges and universities.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.