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Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (Patrick Deneen)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Importance of Regime Change

This is both dumb and incoherent. Denean himself calls for a new aristocracy in the next sentence to replace today's elites, thereby contradicting himself. It is not true there is any historical rule or even trend that a new elite is worse. If the new elite is not left, if it is left, then mass murder is inevitable. And finally, reinforcing my complaints, Denean concludes the book with a heaping helping of scrutanism. The day is late, but a lighted shelter can be discerned among the globe. It is time to abandon the ruins we have made, seek refreshment, and then build anew. That'll be the regime change we need.

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