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.

Patrick J. Deneen - August 1, 2009

College graduates are certainly learning something - all that resume padding isn't worth a bucket of spit when all the imaginary jobs that kept...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 17, 2009

During the course of this entire week, FPR will devote its main pages to a symposium on the recent book Shop Class as Soul...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 15, 2009

Most media outlets have treated the financial crisis as a consequence of Wall Street Gone Wild. However, this New Yorker article suggests -...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 15, 2009

Alexandria, VA They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can sometimes tell how the book’s designers wanted the book...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 11, 2009

Several years ago I (sarcastically) noted a hot trend in the DC Metropole - the outsourcing of many mundane tasks seen as superfluous and...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 10, 2009

Joe Carter weighs in at First Things with a set of challenging reservations about the relevance of Matt Crawford's arguments for a more general...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 6, 2009

Alexandria, VA Since Caleb has posted his lecture from a legendary conference a few years ago that a number of future Front Porchers attended...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 5, 2009

"We live on the far side of a broken connection" Wendell Berry has written. One of the greatest obstacles resulting from our current circumstance...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 5, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI's eagerly awaited third encyclical was released today: "Charity in Truth." I'll be reading it over the next few days, but here's...

Patrick J. Deneen - July 2, 2009

The conversation between Rusty Reno, Jody Bottum, and Caleb Stegall prompted me to revisit a recent post from "What I Saw In America" in...

Patrick J. Deneen - June 26, 2009

As Caleb has already noted here, Rusty Reno and Jody Bottum have been mixing it up over at First Things over issues of localism,...

Patrick J. Deneen - June 26, 2009

Let it not be said that FPR indiscriminately supports "localism." I believe that all my compatriots here would agree that this is one...