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Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism

Democracy Paradox

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The Importance of Common Good

I'm not sure what your definition of ill liberal would be. It seems to me that the IL, the work that it's doing is that you are a bad person. I don't recognize myself in the language of illiberalism because I don't begin with the assumption that liberalism is the default or the norm. And maybe this gets us eventually into a discussion of democracy. The way you're describing it, it sounds like under your terms, it would invigorate democracy. Am I understanding that right?

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