“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 ...

From sharp wit to strong personal boundaries, people with true common sense are defined by their small rituals and habits. Depending on the environment they're in and the people they're around, their ...

Common sense is generally defined by a level of social awareness that the average person cultivates without much effort.

Amid the campus grounds of Brandeis University, housed in the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, is one of America’s most significant primary documents, a pamphlet, written by ...

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 ...

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 ...