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

FPR v. PoMoCon, Part Deux

Some heat and even some light have been generated in the numerous comments that followed upon my original posting in which I threw some...

Robert Nisbet’s Quest

Seattle, WA Robert Nisbet's 1953 book The Quest for Community has rightfully achieved that rare and estimable status of "classic."     What Nisbet saw more...

An Actually Interesting Debate

Most of the debates within the "conservative" wing today are yawners.  They pit one brand of worn-out "conservatism" against another (often with the assistance...

Necessity and Virtue

A fascinating article in today's Washington Post confirms the old adage that there's always a bull market somewhere: right now, namely, in the...

Against the Environment

Alexandria, VA The other night I happened to catch the second half of an ABC special program, "Earth 2100."  The program was a "speculative...

The Blessings of Pesticides

I learned tonight, courtesy of American Media's Marketplace, that there is a letter-writing campaign currently afoot protesting the organic garden that was planted and...

Against (Gay) Marriage

Alexandria, VA Andrew Cherlin - the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University - has written an...

Shop Class as Radio Show

Matthew Crawford - political philosopher and motorcycle repairman - has published an important new book entitled Shop Class as Soul Craft.  The book has...

Scruton’s Challenge

Authors and readers of FPR should spend some time reading this extraordinary essay by Roger Scruton, from the most recent issue of Intercollegiate Review. ...

What Is to be Done?

On Amtrak Regional Train 130 Daniel Larison has written a number of related postings here (and here) and elsewhere that have insistently raised and...

Go Home, Young Person

Jeremy Beer has masterfully articulated the ideology of meritocracy and the destruction it wreaks upon the small towns and non-major cities of the nation. ...

An Unholy Alliance

At "Minding the Campus," there's an essay by ME that touches on the implicit similarities between our technocratic administrative class and our post-modern radical...