Category Archives: Politics – General

Government and The Common Good

Salus publica suprema lex esto (cropped)

“The common good should be the supreme law”, in the Swiss Parliament.

(Image attributed to Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

By Lyle Troseth

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Can Citizens Rise Above Self-Interest?

Portrait of Thomas Hobbes
In response to my recent post about political philosophy, Jack Lance replied as follows, Continue reading Can Citizens Rise Above Self-Interest?

Political Posts

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Careful readers may have noticed that many years of political posts were removed in November 2025. I regret doing this, but there is no way to retrieve them. Continue reading Political Posts