Leventhal: Common sense for the Commonwealth

There is a growing disconnect between the common sense  solutions people are looking for in Massachusetts and what they ...

250 years later, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" remembered for helping spark American Revolution

A Philadelphia historian says Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published 250 years ago, "changed the course of world history." ...
CounterPunch

Toward a New Common Sense of Abundance

“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield advised his son. But common sense doesn’t stay that way. While it appears ...
The Conversation

The history of ‘common sense’ matters when caring for our common home

Professor, English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture; Academic Director, Re.Climate: Centre for Climate Communication and Public Engagement, Carleton ...
The New York Times

Trump Is on the Border Between Common Sense and Nonsense

That is how Donald Trump, early in his Inaugural Address, described the principle, or at least the slogan, that would animate his second term. It’s an exquisitely Trumpian formulation — tying the ...
The New Yorker

Can Computers Learn Common Sense?

A few years ago, a computer scientist named Yejin Choi gave a presentation at an artificial-intelligence conference in New Orleans. On a screen, she projected a frame from a newscast where two anchors ...
Scoop

Toward A New Common Sense Of Abundance

Common sense is the product of these expectations and conventions: the set of assumptions that helps us think collectively. If our goal is to substitute a common sense founded on an inclusionary ...