Deneen Patrick

For the last year, Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen has been one of those books of the moment in conservative intellectual circles. (No, conservative intellectual is not an oxymoron. I know you thought that. The joke was already old in the 1960s.) The first thing to note about the book’s title is that the Liberalism that Failed is not that found in the Democratic Party. This is not a Republican tirade against Democrats. The Liberalism here is the old use of the term, the liberalism … [Read more...] about Make the Holy Roman Empire Great Again