Category: Patrick Deneen

Yearning for Collapse

The following review is part of RealClear Books and Culture’s symposium on Patrick Deneen’s “Regime Change.” Patrick Deneen, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame and the author of 2018’s “Why Liberalism Failed,” takes a radical step forward in his latest book, “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.” Here, Deneen turns his critique of liberalism into…


The European Obsession

The following review is part of RealClear Books and Culture’s symposium on Patrick Deneen’s ‘Regime Change.’ Has the political realignment produced a substantial political vision of its own? Patrick Deneen, a professor of political science at Notre Dame, has attempted to answer this question in his latest book, “Regime Change: Toward a Post-Liberal Order” with dubious results. What’s correct…