'Does Common Good mean anything?' was the title question of a lecture given in the Loyola Institute on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 by Dr Patrick Riordan SJ, Irish Jesuit and philosopher at Campion Hall in Oxford. Before his talk, he spoke with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications and referenced a few of the themes that he would be addressing later. He was particularly concerned about populism's common but unreflective use of the term 'the common good'.