Patrick Deneen
Patrick J. Deneen teaches political theory at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, most recently Why Liberalism Failed.
Articles by Patrick Deneen
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 at the University of Chicago honoring…
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 "conversation" about his recent work,…
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 the program that I founded and direct, "The…
“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 Culture at the University of Virginia.…
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 books—except when they’re made to.…
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 Times. According to the Time's Anand Giridharadas,…
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 event. He will be debating Professor…
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 and Washington D.C. who were killed on…
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 his voice over the past year. We'll…
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 and unstable? At times one has…
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 of Liberty"). Fells Point, Baltimore. A…
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 the Guardian, Glasman has the ear of…