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Patrick J. Deneen
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
Sentinel, 2023
Patrick J. Deneen, a professor of Political Science at Notre Dame, came to prominence as the author of Why Liberalism Failed (2018), a book that contrasted our present circumstances with the rosy promises of previous generations of liberals. I published a favorable review here at Counter-Currents. Deneen’s latest offering, Regime Change (2023), continues many of the same themes, but shifts its emphasis to positive recommendations for the ordering a postliberal world, particularly a recovery of the ancient ideal of the mixed constitution as the best means of avoiding destructive conflict between the few “haves” and the many “have-nots.”
Such conflict was perhaps the chief feature of the...
