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Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism

Democracy Paradox

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The Blind Spots of Liberalism

The treatment of Native Americans in what became the United States was premised on liberal presuppositions. The idea that every human being has dignity doesn't stop at the boundary where you're not industrious and you're not productive, he says. "I think liberals have a kind of tendency to self-congratulation"

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