‘Common-Good Capitalism’ Can Reinforce Freedom

The protection of our private liberties depends in no small part on our attention to the commonwealth.

We are, it seems, in the age of the “common good” wars. Florida senator Marco Rubio helped launch the latest iteration of this debate last month in his call for a “common-good capitalism,” with an emphasis on markets that strengthen families and the American worker. Though Josh Hawley, the freshman Republican senator from Missouri, might not have explicitly invoked the “common good” in a later speech at the American Principles Project, he touched...