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

To the Windy City and the Golden Dome

I'll be in The City of the Big Shoulders this Thursday and Friday, October 13-14, both to attend and to participate in a conference...

The Return of the Red Tory

Our friend Phillip Blond returns to the U.S., landing first in Washington, D.C., where he will join me tomorrow evening, Thursday October 6 for...

A Question for David Brooks

Alexandria, VA On Monday night of this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke at Georgetown University at the invitation of...

“Thrift and Thriving in America”

...is the title of a new multi-author volume edited by Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter of the Institute of Advanced Studies in...

Rd U Ltr NOT 🙁

More reportage, now by Niall Ferguson, of the obviously depressing news - we are raising a nation of idiots. Half of today’s teenagers don’t read...

Consolidators

Get ready to fall off your seat. Sarah Palin, a.k.a., Flawed Vessel, recently received a bit of positive press in the New York...

Ratification Debate, Part II

Tonight, September 19, FPR's own Bill Kauffman will gird up to re-make the case of the Anti-federalists at the Tocqueville Forum's annual Constitution Day...

Nine Eleven

Alexandria, VA September 11, 2001, we are frequently told, is the day that "changed everything." For the 3,000 people in New York City...

Rod’s Back

Dreher, that is, with a new blog at The American Conservative website. Congratulations to both, and especially all of us, who have missed...

A Human Education

From Pope Benedict XVI's Address to Young University Professors: "Where will young people encounter those reference points in a society which is increasingly confused...

Community AND Liberty OR Individualism AND Statism

(What follows is the text of the remarks that I delivered at the recently concluded I.S.I. Honors Program. The conference was entitled "The Language...

A Left Turn Worth Considering

If only such voices as that of Lord Maurice Glasman received a hearing in today's Democratic Party. According to this remarkable article in...