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Patrick Deneen on the Failure of Liberalism and the Importance of Relational Living

The Sacred

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The Politics of Integration

I think that the only way in some ways to force this ruling class to recognize what they are, what their approach and policies are wreaking on everyday people is through a kind of political pushback. And if we don't want to see this go the direction of a cold or even a hot civil war, the happy outcome of this in my view would be Aristotelian ends. So I don't know here whether, you know, the ends, the ends are contrary to the means. But there's not likely to be a willingness to achieve the kind of blending that I call for in the last chapter of the book, the chapter on integration.

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