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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

by Patrick J. Deneen|4 Comments

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.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

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.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

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Helen Dale, Rachel Lu, Daniel Mahoney, Jessica Hooten Wilson, and other Law & Liberty writers offer some recommendations.
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Applying the Fourth Amendment’s Original Meaning to Cell Phones and Heat Sensors

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