Deneen Among the Liberals
by Peter J. LeithartDeneen’s definition of liberalism disregards the role of religion and the public management of religion in the formation of liberal order. Continue Reading »
Deneen’s definition of liberalism disregards the role of religion and the public management of religion in the formation of liberal order. Continue Reading »
A Catholic politics never seeks to be a sacred politics, never proposes a full and complete integration of statecraft with soulcraft. Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
. . . 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 Im 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 »
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 »