Synopsis
Deneen argues liberalism has failed and calls for a postliberal order in which a renewed elite governs toward the common good and ordinary people's interests.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workA new ruling class should be formed that serves the many rather than itself, reorienting power toward tradition, family, and the common good.
It pushes postliberal critique from diagnosis to prescription, proposing an alternative to liberal proceduralism rather than just lamenting it.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty.
Reading note
Read it as a polemic, weighing its critique of liberalism separately from the contested elite-led remedy it proposes.
Best paired with
Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty