How many of us have been admonished, "Use your common sense!" In actuality, the person has no idea what they are talking about, unfair to you. Reality and truth are not the same. We confuse the idea ...

Anniversary of the Publication of "Common Sense" ...

The idea of "common sense" has been central to American politics since the founding of the United States. Politicians still use the phrase all the time — and perhaps none more so than President Trump.

In my youth, I came to understand the term "common sense" as implying that though you may not have extensive knowledge about a topic or even extensive skill in reasoning, you likely have enough of ...

Today’s administrative state would be unrecognizable to the Constitution’s founding generation, but today’s agencies also bear an ever-decreasing resemblance to their mid-20th century selves. How ...

"Common sense" is often characterized by society, communities, or the people someone exists around. How they act in a specific situation is typically defined by their environment, which is why people ...

I am a 62-year-old, lifelong Democrat. Portraits of John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman hang in my office as do the portraits of Republicans Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. I believe in basic ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month eased guidelines for those who have tested positive for COVID. After previously recommending five days of isolation after testing positive, ...

Does it feel like having common sense just kind of evaporated in our society? Every day, CEOs make foolish decisions that hurt their own companies, politicians seem to throw their own careers under ...