Patrick Deneen

The answer is hardly obvious.

I was the featured speaker at September's Washington D.C. "Conservatism on Tap." My topic: "Is There a Conservative Tradition in America?" I'll post my talk here soon. Stay tuned.

A reflection on Constitution as regime, by the late Wilson Carey McWilliams

Is being Number One all it's cracked up to be?

"Here's a couple of things America got right - cars and freedom."

A riff on Thomas Frank’s thesis in "What’s the Matter With Kansas?," asking why wealthy voters in Blue States like Connecticut have been apparently voting against their economic interests by…

Bryan Caplan ignores the role religious belief plays in fertility rates.

News Flash: Brooks criticizes suburbia.

CLS vs. Martinez is part of a long-term effort to eviscerate all fundamental human associations. Only the radical individual and global state are regarded as legitimate.

That some "progressives" may be conservatives, while most "conservatives" are actually progressives.

Wendell Berry explains his break with the University of Kentucky.

Tea party populism gets its marching orders from Republican leaders in Washington D.C., while Obama pretends to seeth.