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Patricia Duff founded The Common Good in 2007, with a goal of bringing together major policy leaders in government and authoritative figures in business, media, journalism and academia, to speak candidly on the most important issues of today.
The Common Good (commongood.net; TCG) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that strives to inspire broad participation in democracy through the free exchange of ideas and civil dialogue, and seeks to find ways to bridge the growing divisions that threaten the nation.
Duff spearheads the The Common Good, a non-profit, non-partisan network that encourages political participation and increased understanding of critical national issues across party lines.
NEW YORK. Finding Common Ground. EDITORS’ NOTE Duff founded The Common Good in New York in 2007. Immediately after graduating from college, Duff worked with the House Select Committee on Assassinations. An Interview with Patricia Duff, Founder, The Common Good.
- Problems for Retributivism. We should not underplay the importance of the retributivist revival of the 1970s, but we must also recognize its weaknesses.
- Crimes, Wrongs, and Harms. Before we can talk usefully about criminal punishment, we must talk about crime itself: while it might not be a necessary truth that crime entails punishment, since we could retain a kind of criminal law while doing away with punishment, criminal punishment presupposes crime, as that for which it is imposed.
- Responsibility and Calling to Account. A polity that takes its self-defining values seriously, and that takes its members seriously (a polity, that is, whose members take each other seriously) as citizens who are both bound and protected by those values, cannot ignore violations of those values or the wrongs that citizens do to each other.14 One way in which it takes note of such wrongs is by publicly defining and declaring them as wrongs: this is, I suggested in the previous section, an initial function of criminal law.
- The Meaning and Purpose of Punishment. Although I promised at the start of this essay to defend a robust retributivism, I have not yet said anything, retributivist or otherwise, about the role of punishment in the kind of criminal law sketched in the previous two sections.
Patricia Duff is an American political activist and a former consultant to multiple District of Columbia-based political strategy firms. She has played an integral role in numerous political races, from the mayoral level to presidential elections.
Jan 12, 2023 · One of the nation’s most distinguished foreign affairs experts joins us to discuss the global outlook for 2023 and his important new book, Bill of Obligations, on the critical role of citizens in reclaiming our democracy. Insurrection: The January 6th Final Report with Ari Melber. January 12, 2023.
