2025-08-29
1 小时 16 分钟Patrick Deneen is a professor in the political science department at Notre Dame,
the Catholic University in Indiana that was founded in 1842.
But he is not a political scientist.
He is quick to point this out,
and he has a lot of practice pointing it out because that's what most people think he is.
He calls himself a political theorist or a political philosopher.
Another thing he is not is a political operative.
Although that's the impression you might have gotten
if you read a recent Wall Street Journal article with this headline,
the ideological gurus battling for the soul of Trump world.
That's certainly the impression that I got.
Here's the sub headline of that article.
Techno libertarian Curtis Yarvin and Catholic conservative Patrick Deneen have just one thing in common,
a desire to destroy the American establishment.
Here's one line from that article by Joshua Chaffin and Zusha Ellenson.
On one side are tech bros racing to create a new future.
On the other, a resurgent band of conservative Catholics who yearn for an imagined past.
Until I read that article, I had not heard of Patrick Deneen,
which I'm a bit embarrassed to say
because he's a pretty big name in some of the circles I try to keep up on.