Patrick Deneen 
His books include The Odyssey of Political Theory, Democratic Faith, Conserving America?, and most recently, Why Liberalism Failed, which appeared in January, 2018 with Yale University Press.
In addition to academic work, he frequently writes for journals of opinion, including First Things, The American Conservative, The Weekly Standard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Commonweal. He is a regular contributor to a variety of online journals and blogs, which has gained him an extensive readership beyond academic audiences.
Deneen was series editor of Political Companions to Great American Authors with the University Press of Kentucky from 2005-2017; and"Radical Conservatisms" (along with co-editor Elizabeth Corey) with University of Pennsylvania Press. He serves on a number of editorial boards, including Perspectives on Political Science and American Political Thought. He is a contributing editor with the journal The American Conservative.
While at Georgetown University, Deneen founded and served as Founding Director of the "Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy," which became a vibrant center for reflection on the contributions of political thought to American politics and culture. At the University of Notre Dame he is an affiliate faculty with the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and American Public Life, and theMinor in Constitutional Studies, both of which he served as Interim Director from 2014-2015. He currently serves as Acting Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame for the Spring 2018 semester.
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Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.
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