Deneen Among the Liberals

by Peter J. Leithart

Deneen’s definition of liberalism disregards the role of religion and the public management of religion in the formation of liberal order. Continue Reading »

16 Nov 2018

Liberal Integralism

by R. R. Reno

A Catholic politics never seeks to be a sacred politics, never proposes a full and complete integration of statecraft with soulcraft. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2018

Utopian Temptation

by Timothy Fuller

Why Liberalism Failedby patrick j. deneenyale, 248 pages, $30 Patrick Deneen asserts that liberalism has failed. He also asserts (in a recent article) that “the exceedingly narrow victory of Donald Trump may be understood as the last gasp of a dying conservatism that has been destroyed by American . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018

Ciceronian Times Call for Ciceronian Voices

by Carl R. Trueman

The church may be moving back to the status it had in the first-century CE but the world around us might be more akin to Rome of the first-century BCE. Continue Reading »

26 Dec 2016

Fred Siegel’s Defense of Middlebrow Culture…

by Carl Scott

. . . is mostly a blistering attack on elitist intellectuals , including Ortega y Gasset and his Revolt of the Masses . You do not want to miss this one, and I’m not sure how long Commentary will let you read it for free. A lot of the essay reminds us just how bad so many intellectuals were, . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Apr 2012

The Publishing Event of the Summer

by Carl Scott

TWO collections of Wilson Carey McWilliams essays!  Patrick Deneen introduces them  here .  One is more America-oriented, the other more general.  Wendell Berry is the muse, model, and poet of Porcherism, but McWilliams is its real political philosopher.  Or deserves . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Jun 2011