Patrick Deneen

The economy is on the mend, if indicators of increasing quantities of garbage and waste are to be trusted. Economists celebrate our return to growth.

Over the weekend I picked up a book with a promising title: "Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture." It helps chart a path to a promising coalition between…

We are trapped in the deepest imaginable form of incoherence: we call for more control over the consequences of mastery, yet vaguely recognize that this very response is the source…

Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.

It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit - especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.

The Cato Institute sponsors a symposium on Philip Blond, with a lead essay by yours truly.

Is there really any limit to political consolidation, when the very effects of that consolidation ensure the creation of even larger economic, military, and other crises that require more expansive…

"Solving for Pattern" means making connections between seemingly separate crises - such as those taking place in Greece and the Gulf of Mexico, ones that are both born of our…

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky will be in the Greater D.C. area this week, appearing at the Arlington Central Library Auditorium on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. Come early!

On the threshold between two unchosen ways of life - one of commitments, the other of choices. Both give rise to discontents, but ours today makes them a way of…

Why "Great Books" curricula aren't all they're cracked up to be.

The hidden connection between our two academic orthodoxies - post-modernism and scientific research.