University of Notre Dame

Patrick Deneen

Criticism, Journalism

Patrick J. Deneen is Professor of Political Science and holds the David A. Potenziani Memorial Chair of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of four books, The Odyssey of Political Theory, Democratic Faith, Conserving America?, and Why Liberalism Failed

He frequently writes for journals of opinion, including First Things, The American Conservative, The Weekly Standard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Commonweal.


Festival Years: 2008