2018–19 The Common Good

The Common Good: Examining Our American Values 

The Common Good series invites our speakers to examine critical topics that impact the nation we share, such as civil rights, education, health care, economics, incarceration, law, and technology.  

The series will provide audiences with a variety of perspectives on how the common good has shaped—and sometimes failed to shape—American social, political, cultural, and ethical history, how it is working or not working in today’s America, and how it might contribute to and strengthen American identity and society in the years to come. 

 

Dianna Cohen, co-founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition “Plastic Pollution: Art to Action”

Nalini Nadkarni, Professor of Biology, University of Utah.“Tapestry Thinking: Weaving the Threads of Humans and Nature”

Alisa Roth,author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. “America’s Hidden Mental Health Crisis.”

Danielle Allen, Professor and Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. “The Ethics of Public Participation in a Digital Age.” 

Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. “Reversing Wealth Inequality: The Case for Restoring Progressive Taxation and Bringing Wealth Home.”