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Patrick J. Deneen is David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

February 15, 2017|Conservatism, Conserving America, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, It's A Wonderful Life, John Locke, Orestes Brownson, Progressivism

America, What’s Left of It: A Conversation with Patrick Deneen

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Patrick Deneen joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book, Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents.

June 27, 2016|Conservatism, James Burnham, Liberalism, Suicide of the West

Adaptation or Abandonment?

by Patrick J. Deneen|2 Comments

Burnham’s remarkable book thus gives us a clear outline of continuity and change in America’s political ideologies over the past 50 years.

Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft

A discussion with Colin Dueck

Colin Dueck discusses his new book, Age of Iron, with Richard Reinsch

Liberalism and the Death Penalty

A discussion with Craig S. Lerner

Craig Lerner discusses the political, philosophical, and moral implications of the death penalty.

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

The Wayfaring Soldiers of 1917

This is a war going on until only one man stands, the viewer is reminded at the end.
by Graham McAleer
Inequality and the French Pension Strikers

People may be blind to their country’s long-term interests but they are seldom blind to their own short-term interests.
by Theodore Dalrymple
Howard Zinn: Fake Historian

Zinn had a different project in mind than most historians. As he wrote, history is “not about understanding the past,” but about “changing the future."
by Ronald Radosh
The Inadequacy of State Capacity Libertarianism

Modern libertarianism has too narrow a view of social harm and too limited a role for government in encouraging mediating institutions that ameliorate it.
by John O. McGinnis
Congress Rebuked but Not Reimagined

Now 25 years old, did the Republican Revolution of 1994 change anything in Washington?
by Philip A. Wallach

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