
‘The EU is not Europe’: Day One of the Battle for the Soul of Europe Conference
The speakers at the conference denounced the erosion of freedoms and the advance of technocratic structures detached from citizens.

The speakers at the conference denounced the erosion of freedoms and the advance of technocratic structures detached from citizens.

What’s sold as diversity often collapses into a uniform culture of consumerism—eroding the deeper human needs for friendship, family, and truth.
In this episode of our “Occasional Dialogues” series, Kurt Hofer interviews Patrick Deneen, professor of political philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. They discuss his new book, “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future,” which Deneen says continues the themes of his 2018 book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” but with a constructive project in mind: he proposes a bold plan for replacing the liberal elite and the ideology that created and empowered them.

The future does not belong to the champions of sterile sex and dumpsters filled with dead babies. Rather, it belongs to those who will fight for love, self-sacrifice, and the children of the next generation.

The critiques of postliberals are all useful correctives in this regard. Nonetheless, conservative scholars—and perhaps even more so conservative politicians—must beware the potential perils of embracing postliberalism as a term and concept.

There is no indication that David French has ever visited Hungary, but the idea that leading figures of an American political movement in which he no longer possesses even a crumb of influence or credibility feels affinity for that country clearly angers and frightens him.