Patrick J. Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen
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Patrick J. Deneen teaches political theory at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, most recently Why Liberalism Failed.

Recent Essays

What’s Not the Matter With Kansas

Tonight I happened to attend a pair of extremely interesting, and strikingly juxtaposed, events. The first was a Bradley Lecture at AEI delivered...

Social Injustice

{This column appears in today's Hoya, Georgetown's student newspaper.  My column is published fortnightly.} If there is one thing about which we are certain that...

Gauntlets

A great many comments have been posted in response to my posting, "Subsidizing Localism."  I think the question I sought to pose - and...

Subsidizing Localism?

A great post over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen by "Will."  Beyond his reliance on a clearly excellent source (ahem), I strongly endorse...

Ivy Guilt and Heartland Vice

Finally, a reckoning:  Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard, fesses up: At this moment in our history, universities might well ask if they have in...

Academic Porn

The latest from the University of Maryland is a brohaha over the effort by a state legislator to discourage (through the threat of withholding...

Frank Rich Slams Harvard

Frank Rich goes after the "go-go" ethos that has been deeply etched in our elite institutions and advanced by the cultural elite - regardless...

Making Progress?

Writing on the occasion of Ronald Reagan's death, the NY Times columnist David Brooks articulated the roots of Reagan's success in as accurate and...

Nobel Gestures

The awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize on a man who has been President not even for  10 months (before that, briefly, a U.S. senator,...

Ending Political Science?

A missive has gone out across the land and globe from the Director of the American Political Science Association urgently alerting members of the...

Catholics Discover Distributism

Over at "Inside Catholic," one of their stable of writers, Eric Pavlet, expresses excitement in discovering thoughts on economics that eschew the contemporary statism...

Globalization – the new Secularization Thesis?

Greet the newest columnist for "The Hoya," Georgetown's biweekly student newspaper. In today's column (which runs fortnightly), I question whether the current academic...