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

Electrifying

This article caught my attention yesterday - our hunger for electricity to power our "personal electronics" has grown so insatiable that very soon the...

Pan-American Political Science Association?

Russell Arben Fox has treated us to his reflections of the recently concluded APSA annual meeting here. It would be surprising if there...

Risk Pool

It has been a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the subsequent near-collapse of the international economic system followed quickly by the...

What’s in a Name?

A new semester begins at Georgetown and around the country, a delicious time of early Fall anticipation of possibility and the unexpected - at...

Six Months

We set up here on the porch six months ago today. Many words later, it's still a nice place to relax and shoot...

News From Nowhere

Alexandria, VA I'm late to this, but have been spending the last few weeks of the summer break gorging on episodes of David Simon's acclaimed...

Some Good Words

This fellow has some nice things to say about what we've been up to here on the porch. So let me return the...

The Real Death Panels

From the indispensable Joe Bageant: "Dottie is doping out the Romney medical establishment for me: 'These Indians or Pakis or whatever they are run...

Road Rage

For readers tuning into the comments  sections of FPR (where some of our best material lies), there was an extremely interesting and instructive discussion...

Making (a Virtue of) Vice

Yet more news from the hustings:  a growing number of people are growing their own tobacco for their own consumption.  Bully for them -...

Philip Bess’s Pizza

Last week,  Philip Bess - the noted Notre Dame University scholar of architecture - delivered a lecture in Washington under the auspice of the...

Class Project

  Recently, a friend who is conservative asked me:  "What should be the next great project for conservatism?"  I mulled this for a bit, and...