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Archive: Unorthodoxy
Nine Eleven
UNORTHODOXY Patrick J. Deneen September 11, 2001, we are frequently told, is the day that "changed everything." For the 3,000 people in New York City and Washington D.C. who were killed on that blue-skied day, and for their families, that...
By Patrick J. Deneen | September 11, 2011; 09:11 AM ET | Comments (0)
Who owns civility?
Civility is indeed a lost art of our time, but not because of talk radio or growing partisanship. These are symptoms of a deeper disease.
By Patrick J. Deneen | March 2, 2011; 09:44 AM ET | Comments (8)
Is a society required to grant its artists the right to offend?
If one can fault the Smithsonian for anything, it is not withdrawal of the piece - it is its decision to have displayed it in the first instance without appropriate reflection upon the offensiveness of the imagery in its exhibit.
By Patrick J. Deneen | January 4, 2011; 12:37 AM ET | Comments (79)
O Holy Night
Unorthodoxy Patrick J. Deneen Despite conservative disapproval of the greeting "Happy Holidays," as a Christian I take no offense at the phrase. After all, the words effectively invoke the same sentiment - they are a slight abbreviation of the...
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 22, 2010; 12:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
End of the Culture War?
Unorthodoxy Patrick J. Deneen In his most recent column in the New York Times, Ross Douthat argues that the longstanding narrative of the culture wars - a liberal elite which defends lifestyle libertinism vs. the stalwart heartland yeomanry who stand...
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 10, 2010; 11:18 AM ET | Comments (9)
Getting Linker's "Religious Test" wrong
Liberalism is largely blind (willfully or ignorantly) to its own heavy hand in the transformation of society
By Patrick Deneen | November 15, 2010; 11:40 AM ET | Comments (3)
Red Tories and tea parties
Red Tory movement in Britain provides an intellectual and theological foundation for tea party movement here.
By Patrick J. Deneen | March 17, 2010; 08:39 AM ET | Comments (1)
God of earthquakes and uncertainty
Earthquakes raise age-old questions: Where is God and what is meaning of natural catastrophe? We need some new answers.
By Patrick J. Deneen | March 9, 2010; 09:48 AM ET | Comments (11)
Religious, not spiritual
Study says younger generations getting more spiritual, less religious. That's exactly the reverse of what we need.
By Patrick J. Deneen | February 23, 2010; 12:49 PM ET | Comments (13)
Secular radicals
Who's the radical? Brit Hume, the Christmas bomb plotter or secularists who see God behind every plot?
By Patrick J. Deneen | January 6, 2010; 09:04 AM ET | Comments (37)
A Christmas prayer
Often lost in debates over creches and Christmas trees is the transformative idea that God was born of a woman in a barn.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 24, 2009; 02:06 AM ET | Comments (10)
Moralism without morality
A Party of Moralists without Morality must face the distinct possibility that it is above all a Party of disingenuous scolds.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 15, 2009; 02:38 PM ET | Comments (5)
It's a Wonderful Subdivision
"It's a Wonderful Life" portrays the life of a small-town man who ends up undermining the communal basis of the town that saves him in the end.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 12, 2009; 10:28 PM ET | Comments (0)
How a culture dies
We cling to our modern faith in monocultures, even as the news seems to be undeniable that nature hates monocultures.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 3, 2009; 07:37 AM ET | Comments (3)
Giving thanks for enough
A Thanksgiving lesson from our ancestors that we would do well to relearn: How to make do with less.
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 25, 2009; 11:45 AM ET | Comments (1)
God, Notre Dame, Country
Will the work at Notre Dame, aimed at healing the Catholic partisan divide, lead to a Catholic revival?
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 18, 2009; 10:37 AM ET | Comments (9)
Social injustice
How do we know if our concern for "social justice" isn't a kind of psychic compensation for a guilty conscience?
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 12, 2009; 06:55 AM ET | Comments (2)
Birth control and human ecology
Catholic institutions shouldn't try to smuggle Catholic teachings against birth control into health insurance policies.
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 6, 2009; 05:47 AM ET | Comments (12)
Benedict the Radical
The Pope sees Christianity entering a dark period. It must strengthen itself by shrinking to a core of the faithful.
By Patrick J. Deneen | October 28, 2009; 11:29 AM ET | Comments (64)
Liberal intolerance of religious diversity
Shouldn't the diversity among such Catholic institutions as Georgetown and CAU be permitted, even respected?
By Patrick J. Deneen | October 21, 2009; 11:11 AM ET | Comments (25)
Sex, Lies and Hypocrisy
Sanford and Ensign, Letterman and Polanski: Better to fail high standards than live up to no standards.
By Patrick J. Deneen | October 14, 2009; 02:29 PM ET | Comments (7)
