644. Has America Lost Its Appetite for the Common Good?

Patrick Deneen, a political philosopher at Notre Dame, says yes. He was a Democrat for years, and has now come to be seen as an “ideological guru” of the Trump administration. But that only tells half the story ...

• SOURCES:• Patrick Deneen (politicalscience.nd.edu/people/patrick-deneen), professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

• RESOURCES:• "The Ideological Gurus Battling for the Soul of Trump World (wsj.com/politics/maga-idiology-curtis-yarvin-p…?)," by Joshua Chaffin and Zusha Elinson (Wall Street Journal, 2025).
• "Why the MAGA-DOGE coalition will hold (unherd.com/2025/04/why-the-maga-doge-coalition…)," by Patrick Deneen (UnHerd, 2025).
• "‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary (politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/08/the-new-…),’" by Ian Ward (POLITICO, 2023).
• Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (amzn.to/3JBeOEK), by Patrick Deneen (2023).
• Why Liberalism Failed (yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300240023/why-libe…), by Patrick Deneen (2018).

• EXTRAS:• "In Search of the Real Adam Smith (freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/in-search-of-the-…)," series by Freakonomics Radio (2022).

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