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Common Sense Society is an international network that promotes liberty, prosperity, and beauty—representing timeless principles that are indispensable to human flourishing and happiness.
With a community-centered model across North America and Europe, we educate 21st-century generations and inform public discourse. Our Fellowships, curriculum resources, publications, cultural programs and events, and targeted national campaigns illuminate the enduring ideas that have transformed the course of human history for the better. Ideas have consequences.
Join us as we consider a future that draws on the best of the past—a future that is free, flourishing, thoughtful, and full of enduring meaning.
Common Sense Society was founded as a debating forum in 2009 by a group of American and European university students. They aimed to explore the ideas that have shaped our history and will greatly influence our future. The Society quickly evolved into a celebration of the “sensus communis,” the most important lessons of our shared civilization.
Today, Common Sense Society has spread across Europe and North America. Our National Branches differ in respects, but our mission is the same: Advance the timeless principles of liberty, prosperity, and beauty—aspirations that all people, in all places, can achieve.
Each Common Sense Society Fellowship offers the opportunity to study with leading thinkers in social, thoughtful atmospheres and to strengthen their professional relationships.
The Britannia Fellowship is a five-day-long intensive seminar series that explores the foundational principles of European civilization and a free society.
Intended for recent graduates, graduate students, and young professionals from the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America who have demonstrated achievement in their profession or field of study, the Britannia Fellowship focuses on grounding future leaders in the early stages of their academic and professional development in the ideals of responsible liberty.
Convened at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, England and other locations in The Cotswolds, including Sir Roger Scruton's family home at Sundey Hill Farm, the Britannia Fellowship provides an opportunity for participants to explore the interrelationships among liberty, prosperity, and beauty while acquiring the necessary tools to further their education and become effective leaders in their respective communities and career fields. Participation in the fellowship is free and all expenses, with the exception of travel, are covered.
The Europa Fellowship is a five-day-long intensive seminar series that explores the foundational principles of liberty, prosperity, and beauty within the context of European culture and our shared civilization.
Intended for recent graduates, graduate students, and young professionals who have demonstrated their leadership potential, the Europa Fellowship focuses on grounding future leaders in the early stages of their academic and professional development in the ideals of responsible liberty.
Convened in the beautiful Károlyi Castle of Fehérvárcsurgó, Hungary, the Europa Fellowship provides an opportunity for participants to explore the interrelationships among liberty, prosperity, and beauty while acquiring the necessary tools to further their education and become effective leaders in their respective communities and career fields.
Common Sense Society’s Carolina Fellowship is a five-day-long seminar series that explores the United States’ foundational principles in the context of Western civilization.
Intended for recent graduates, graduate students, and young professionals from North America who have demonstrated their leadership potential, the Carolina Fellowship focuses on grounding future leaders in the early stages of their academic and professional development in the ideals of responsible liberty.
Convened in beautiful Bluffton, South Carolina, the Fellowship provides an opportunity for participants to explore the interrelationships among liberty, prosperity, and beauty while acquiring the necessary tools to further their education and become effective leaders in their respective communities and career fields.
