Links & notes: 'Why Liberalism Failed'

Professor Patrick J. Deneen's book Why Liberalism Failed provided abundant topics and ideas for reaction and discussion at today's World Affairs Book Group conversation. Thank you to everyone who took part!

In Why Liberalism Failed, Deneen references a lengthy list of works, from a wide span of history. To name a few:

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

• The End of History by Francis Fukuyama

• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

• The Republic by Plato

• The Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke

• Piano Player by Kurt Vonnegut

• The works of Wendell Berry

This book has generated a large number of interviews, reviews, commentaries, and recorded talks, as an online search will show.

Our December Discussion

We will close 2022 with a novel set in the BBC offices during World War II: Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald.

Our reading of this novel coincides with the 100th anniversary of the BBC.