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Patrick J. Deneen

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

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Why Conservatism is the Natural Home for Working-Class Americans

Patrick J. Deneen July 8, 2020

Rich Lowry’s Nationalist Review

Patrick J. Deneen January 2, 2020

Week 7: Natural Rights Conservatism—The Case of Leo Strauss

Patrick J. Deneen March 25, 2015

Week 6: Libertarianism—Revisiting Hayek

Patrick J. Deneen March 12, 2015

Week 5: Libertarianism—Sources and Themes

Patrick J. Deneen February 26, 2015
Week 4: Progressive Liberalism—Contemporary Voices

Week 4: Progressive Liberalism—Contemporary Voices

Patrick J. Deneen February 19, 2015
How can liberalism support more personal freedom yet less economic individualism---and is libertarianism our destiny?

Week 3: Progressive Liberalism—Sources and Themes

Patrick J. Deneen February 11, 2015
Dewey, Croly, and Rauschenbusch sought to transform classical liberalism's emphasis on individualism.

Week 2–Classical Liberalism: Contemporary Voices

Patrick J. Deneen February 5, 2015
At the "end of history," the liberal disciplining of power begins to undermine democracy itself.

Blog

Week 1–Liberalism: Sources and Themes

Patrick J. Deneen January 28, 2015

Invitation to a Seminar—Liberalism and Conservatism

Patrick J. Deneen January 21, 2015

Following the Science

Patrick J. Deneen September 25, 2014

How Democracy Dies

Patrick J. Deneen September 12, 2014

A Secular Age?

Patrick J. Deneen September 3, 2014
Liberalism is the latest form of Protestant religion, practiced from the academy to the culture wars.

From In Loco Parentis to Leviathan

Patrick J. Deneen May 7, 2014
The sexual liberation of college students led inexorably to the protective intervention of the state.

All Articles

How Red (State) Is Marx?

Patrick J. Deneen May 1, 2014
Marxism's best heir was Christopher Lasch, not communism.

The Case for “Serfdom,” Rightly Understood

Patrick J. Deneen April 9, 2014
Conservatives only empower the state when they make an idol of liberty.

Even If Hobby Lobby Wins, We Lose

Patrick J. Deneen March 25, 2014
Closing on Sundays doesn't make up for the disembedding nature of big box stores.

What’s Wrong with Academic Freedom

Patrick J. Deneen March 5, 2014
Rarely do opinion pieces in college newspapers emerge as subjects of national controversy, but a recent essay by Harvard student Sandra Y.L. Korn…

Liberalism’s (Un)Limited Government

Patrick J. Deneen February 20, 2014
Why is it that today’s liberals have become the most ardent cheerleaders of arbitrary monarchy? Wasn’t liberalism born of the effort to…

A Catholic Showdown Worth Watching

Patrick J. Deneen February 6, 2014
The most interesting Roman split is over liberal democracy itself.

Corporatism and Gay Marriage: Natural Bedfellows

Patrick J. Deneen January 29, 2014
The Left goes corporate as marriage becomes a consumer good.

A Culture of Life

Patrick J. Deneen January 22, 2014
The answer to America's abortion scourge isn't to be found in politics.

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