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Regime Change is about how a society’s elite ought to conduct itself. Deneen’s answer: An elite must aspire to provide common goods that make a virtuous life probable for normal people. 

The incoherent nattering about religious liberty in Ukraine shows that “liberal values” are beside the point.

A Catholic integralist's prescription for a very different Western world.

Patrick Deneen's new book, 'Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future,' asks a lot of important questions and provides unsatisfying answers.

Professor Patrick Deneen’s manifesto tries to give conservatism a radical edge

Man can be viewed as an object to be controlled, disciplined, indoctrinated.

Patrick Deneen writes that the nonaggression principle promotes a liberalism that is harmful to society, as evidenced by John Stuart Mill's idea of the…

Extreme attacks should be supplanted by voices touting commonsense values.

The modern conception, in Deneen's view, spawned societal pathologies that the modern liberal framework cannot solve. His proposed solution in "Why Liberalism Failed" was to lean into the creation of a counterculture that would stand in defiance of this dominant paradigm, a sentiment resonating with the likes of Rod Dreher's "Benedict Option" strain of community-based Christianity, a self-contained and intentional microcosm that can survive the horrors of another da...

From Burke to Buckley to Patrick Deneen, we've seen a 200-year history of defending the indefensible