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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

This review essay was originally published on September 14, 2015. Reading a political classic can reveal not only how much has changed over time, but how many ideas and controversies persist mostly unchanged into our own day. Both of these lessons are on display in James Burnham’s jeremiad The Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (1964), whose republication last year marking its 50-year anniversary has much to teach contemporary liberals and conservatives alike—though I dare say only conservatives will pay it any attention, and all too few at that. One of the architects of post-World…

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