Articles by Patrick Deneen

Much of the explanatory strength of economics, however, rests on a narrow and even unrealistic understanding of human behavior.

In the very act of scouring the world for the best and brightest and putting them on the path to upward mobility, we may be accelerating downward mobility for a great many of our countrymen.

Is there room for viewpoints and perspectives that do not, strictly speaking, seek to tolerate difference, but whose commitments may consist in judging other beliefs or ways of life to be wrong?

Is our unquestioned commitment to a preparation for a future of globalization another instance of wishful thinking that obscures our ability to see opposing evidence to this supposedly inevitable process?

Could our students be a leaven in a materialist culture that has shown little sign of changing a year later? Can we have the courage to lead by a different and better example?

Last week the Rev. Wilson Miscamble, a professor of history at University of Notre Dame, spoke on campus about the ...

New and returning students alike cannot fail to notice a discernible structure rising from a plot of land adjacent to ...