Common Good

01/23/2024

Philip Howard’s new book, Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society, is available TODAY. Read the press release here: commongood.org/s/EFPR.pdf

Order here: https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Freedom-Designing-Framework-Flourishing/dp/1957588209

Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

06/12/2023

National Review’s “Capital Writing” has published a 38-minute video interview with Philip Howard on Not Accountable.

You can access the video and an edited transcript below:

A Capital Writing interview with the author of Not Accountable.

05/15/2023

Philip Howard argues in The Hill that solving the budget crisis requires dealing with the pervasive waste in federal programs – and the only realistic way to achieve this is to give the job to an outside commission, subject to an up or down vote by Congress. Read the op-ed below:

Leaders from both parties for decades have kicked the can of federal deficits down the road. The Simpson-Bowles recommendations from 2010 — widely …

05/07/2023

Please join Philip live at noon (ET) today, Sunday, as he fields calls about Not Accountable and his other work on C-SPAN2’s “In Depth."

Attorney & author Philip K. Howard joined Book TV to talk and take calls about government and legal reform in America. Mr. Howard's books include "The Death of Common Sense" and the recently published "Not Accountable."

04/04/2023

Writing in TIME, Philip Howard explains how trade union bargaining is not the same as public union bargaining, and how only one corrupts democracy: https://time.com/6267979/government-unions-corrupt-democracy/

No wonder democracy is working so badly. Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no.

04/03/2023

Philip discussed Not Accountable recently on Mona Charen’s Beg to Differ podcast – listen below.

A printed excerpt of the conversation is available here: https://www.thebulwark.com/a-constitutional-remedy-for-the-ills-of-public-sector-unions/.

Philip K. Howard joins the group to discuss his book on public sector unions. The panel — with special guest Cathy Young — also addresses Trump’s possible indictment and looks back at the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. highlights/lowlights Philip’s: https://www.latimes.com/ca...

03/16/2023

The Manhattan Institute’s John Ketcham reviews Not Accountable for the Wall Street Journal:

“Mr. Howard’s civic-minded zeal for a well-functioning democracy—not to mention the appeal of his brisk, clear prose—should focus our attention on a vexing public problem and even inspire us to wrest back control of our government.

Fearful of angering public-employee unions, politicians bend to their will at taxpayer expense. Can this arrangement be challenged in court?

03/12/2023

Responding to Philip Howard’s recent Daily Beast op-ed, Randi Weingarten invokes due process to justify no accountability in schools.

But what about the rights of the students?

Read our latest newsletter:
https://www.commongood.org/articles-reports-and-media-appearances/the-empire-strikes-back

03/08/2023

America needs a new merit system for government. But how do we break free of the public union contractual and political stranglehold?

Read our latest newsletter: https://www.commongood.org/articles-reports-and-media-appearances/the-new-spoils-system

03/06/2023

Philip Howard talked to the Wall Street Journal’s Mene Ukueberuwa for the paper’s Weekend Interview – read it here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-people-vs-public-sector-unions-philip-howard-collective-bargaining-public-private-fdr-teddy-roosevelt-supreme-court-nyc-transit-pension-healthcare-7d1e45f4?

A new book argues that government unions have seized unaccountable power. The author, Philip Howard, plans to make the case in court.

02/26/2023

Would voters be attracted to a party that focused on making things work? Read our latest newsletter: