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Patrick Deneen ( author ) Patrick J . Deneen ( born 1964 ) is an American political theorist who is Professor of Political Science and holds the David A . Potenziani Memorial College Chair of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame . Life and career . Born in 1964 , Deneen was educated at Rutgers University , earning a B.A . in English Literature ( 1986 ) and a Ph.D . in Political Science ( 1995 ) . He taught at Princeton University ( 1997–2005 ) as an assistant professor . Deneen joined the faculty at Georgetown University in 2005 and was the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government until 2012 . He began his current position at Notre Dame in 2012 . His dissertation , The Odyssey of Political Theory , was awarded the 1995 American Political Science Association Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy . Deneen is a scholar of democracy , liberalism , classical and modern political thought , and American political thought . He is the sole author of four monographs , co-editor of three volumes , and author of numerous academic articles . He has also written for publications including First Things , The American Conservative , The New Atlantis , and Front Porch Republic . Deneens 2018 book Why Liberalism Failed ( Yale University Press ) was recommended by former President Barack Obama as part of his summer reading list . Obama wrote that Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel , issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril . The book has been translated into multiple languages : German , French , Spanish , Arabic , Croatian , Lithuanian , Korean , Japanese , Hungarian , Czech , and Portuguese . From 1995–1997 , he was Speechwriter and Special Advisor to Joseph Duffey , the Director of the United States Information Agency appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton . Deneen was Founding Director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy housed in the Government Department at Georgetown University from 2006–2012 . The Tocqueville Forum was founded in 2006 to promote civic knowledge and promote inquiry . The Tocqueville Forum hosted many prominent speakers on the Georgetown campus , including the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia , Red Tory Phillip Blond , New York Times columnist David Brooks , and the late Cardinal Francis George . In addition to invited speakers , main activities of the Tocqueville Forum were student conversations with visiting guests , a regular reading group , the student journal Utraque Unum , and an annual student retreat . Deneen was a founding editor of the web magazine Front Porch Republic , for which he continues to serve as contributing editor . The journal drew inspiration from the writings of Wendell Berry , reflected in its motto : Place . Limits . Liberty . Deneen wrote first posting of the website , published March 2 , 2009 , entitled A Republic of Front Porches , which was later re-published in revised form in the 2018 book , Localism in the Mass Age : A Front Porch Republic Manifesto . Along with the journal The American Conservative , David Brooks in 2012 classified Front Porch Republic as a paleoconservative publication influencing the future of conservatism . He described its authors as suspicious of bigness : big corporations , big government , a big military , concentrated power and concentrated wealth . Writers at that Web site , and at the temperamentally aligned Front Porch Republic , treasure tight communities and local bonds . Theyre alert to the ways capitalism can erode community . Dispositionally , they are more Walker Percy than Pat Robertson . Deneen has attributed a number of influences for his form of Catholic communitarianism , including his Ph.D . advisor Wilson Carey McWilliams ; Wendell Berry ; Christopher Lasch ; and Alexis de Tocqueville . Political engagements . Deneen was a featured speaker at the 2019 National Conservatism Conference in Washington , DC . In his address , he was in part critical of National Conservatism” , arguing that American nationalism had been a major aim and achievement of progressive philosophers such as Woodrow Wilson , Theodore Roosevelt , and Herbert Croly . He endorsed a nation that was active in supporting more local forms of association : The nation should be above all devoted to efforts to sustain , foster and support the communities that comprise it , and to combat , where necessary and possible , the modern forces that have proven to be so destructive of those constitutive communities . In September 2019 Deneen lectured on “The Crisis of Democracy” in the Czech Senat chamber as part of an international conference arranged by the voting reform group H21 . In November 2019 , Deneen met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as part of a visit to Budapest to discuss the Hungarian translation of Why Liberalism Failed in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In June 2020 , Deneen responded to charges leveled by libertarians of lack of loyalty to American liberal founding principles . Accused of hostility to the individualism of American founding principles by George Will , he pointed to a non-liberal , more communitarian strand in the American tradition . In July 2020 , Deneen engaged in two public debates with libertarian conservatives . At the website The American Compass , Deneen debated with former CKE Restaurants CEO Andrew Puzder on the social responsibilities of corporations , in which Deneen argued for greater civic , consumer , and environmental corporate responsibility . He also debated conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg on the consequences of liberalism , arguing that liberalism had increased social isolation , political fragmentation , and economic inequality . In November 2020 he joined the American Solidarity Party Board of Advisors . Publications . Books . - The Odyssey of Political Theory ( Rowman & Littlefield , 2000 ) - Democratic Faith ( Princeton University Press , 2005 ) - Conserving America ? Thoughts on Present Discontents ( St . Augustine Press , 2016 ) - Why Liberalism Failed ( Yale University Press , 2018 )