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Patrick Deneen

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Patrick Deneen

@PatrickDeneen

Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.

Joined August 2009

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Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Jul 18
After finally arriving home after something of my own two month odyssey abroad, I return to find copies of my newest book awaiting me. Truly an exciting day for any author. The book is a beauty. The jacket cover has a lovely texture, the print is fetching, and the author photo
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Oct 22, 2025
It’s been often claimed that conservatives are largely non-existent in academe because they are drawn to money-making careers. Glad to see this canard utterly obliterated by the American Association of University Professors, who admit that conservatives are effectively purged
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Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Nov 11, 2025
The so-called conservatives who penned this letter demonstrate no actual historical knowledge. For starters, for most of its history I.S.I. hosted a wide variety of conservative voices in its programming. I was regularly a faculty mentor and speaker in its Honors Program from
CG Long
@FrankChodorov
Nov 10, 2025
November 10, 2025 An Open Letter to the Conservative Movement The battle for the heart and soul of the American Conservative Movement is being fought on many fronts, with the latest trench warfare occurring in the boardrooms of its long-standing and most influential foundations
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
May 16, 2025
“It is the responsibility of government leaders to work to build harmonious and peaceful civil societies. This can be achieved above all by investing in the family, founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman.” —Pope Leo XIV, May 16, 2025
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
May 8, 2024
Buy and keep real things. Books. Vinyl. Instruments. Art supplies. This destruction of actual things that you can own and keep, replaced by permanent renting of “virtual” content, is what they are aiming at.
Tim Cook
@tim_cook
May 7, 2024
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
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Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Nov 11, 2025
The left never tried to cancel me quite as fervently as the “right” is now attempting.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
@michaelbd
Nov 11, 2025
This smacks of opportunism. ISI does not push Fuentes at all. Conflating him and Deneen and Burtka is calumny. ISI used to publish in its catalog of books thinkers at least if not more radical than Deneen: James Schall, Chantel Delsol, John Lukacs, or books on figures like
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Jul 21, 2024
Last day in Germany. Not a bad place to worship…
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Oct 16, 2025
I’m so deeply impressed by this new tome by @JamesWHankins1 and Allen Guelzo. Not only is its authors’ deep learning evident on every page, but it is physically a book of beauty and durability, meant to be owned, read, reread, and admired by and for many generations.
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Apr 21, 2025
One of the most powerful and unforgettable moments of his Papacy. May Pope Francis rest in the peace of Christ, and may his successor sustain and advance His Church in these troubled times.
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
May 22, 2025
A great light has gone out. He leaves us a profound legacy, and I pray now rests well in the peace of Christ.
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Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Nov 13, 2025
I want to very publicly thank @michaelbd for his vigorous defense of me and others against a vicious smear campaign, in which people have been willing to bear false witness and outright lie for the sake of maintaining institutional power. Michael and I have had some strenuous
Michael Brendan Dougherty
@michaelbd
Nov 11, 2025
This smacks of opportunism. ISI does not push Fuentes at all. Conflating him and Deneen and Burtka is calumny. ISI used to publish in its catalog of books thinkers at least if not more radical than Deneen: James Schall, Chantel Delsol, John Lukacs, or books on figures like
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Aug 6, 2025
I’m about to begin my 28th year as a professor. Over that span, I have been blessed to teach many truly excellent young people, rich in intellect and of exemplary character. Spending a few days in DC, I was able to gather together a few of the “generations,” many of whom did not
Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
May 10, 2025
Truly providential.
Vatican News
@VaticanNews
May 10, 2025
Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name: "... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.
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Patrick Deneen
@PatrickDeneen
Jul 17, 2024
This WSJ article is about as fair and accurate an account of what some of us mean by “postliberalism” that I’ve yet seen. Rather than wailing about impending authoritarianism based on ignorant fearcasting, it appears this author has actually read some of my work and that others