Patrick  Deneen teaches political theory at Georgetown University and is  the Founding Director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy.   He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, where he studied with and drank bourbon in the company of the late, great Wilson Carey McWilliams.   He grew up in Windsor, Connecticut, which at that time was a vibrant town with a town green, St. Gabriel’s Church (where he was imperfectly catechized), and locally-owned businesses – including a 99-cent movie theater, The Plaza, where many hours of his youth were whiled away.  He still has the pennies in a jar to prove it.  The town green and St. Gabriel’s church are both still there, but getting emptier every year.  The Plaza has long since been shuttered up, like countless other movie theaters that once beckoned on our Main Streets.

He is the author of two books: The Odyssey of Political Theory and Democratic Faith and co-editor of Democracy’s Literature.  He is also the author of a number of articles and reviews on ancient and American political thought as well as areas of religion and politics and literature and politics.  He also posts online at What I Saw in America.

He can be reached by email at pdeneen AT gmail.com

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