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Today’s progressives abuse the word “liberal.” Democracy needs the virtue of liberality, not the ideology of liberalism.

“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.

Channelling Thomas Hobbes, he raises deep questions that we must seek to answer

Patrick Deneen’s latest book is a highbrow version of reactionary insurrectionism. Will it become a political roadmap for an increasingly anti-liberal GOP?

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

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

In his just-published book Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (Sentinel, 2023), the political theorist Patrick J. Deneen indicts modern liberalism, in…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken “looks like the Ghost of Hegemony Past” and only “23% of Europeans think their country should support the U.S. in a war with China over Taiwan, while 62% want to remain neutral.”

In his latest book, Patrick Deneen offers a substantive vision of a political order unshackled from liberal assumptions.