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From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacing the tyranny of the selfserving liberal elite with conservative leaders aligned with the interests of the working class

Classical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy creating an order in which individuals could create their own identities and futures To some extent it didbut it has also demolished the traditions and institutions that nourished ordinary people and created a new and exploitative ruling class This classs economic libertarianism progressive values and technocratic commitments have led them to rule for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many precipitating our current political crises

In Regime Change Patrick Deneen proposes a bold plan for replacing the liberal elite and the ideology that created and empowered them Grassroots populist efforts to destroy the ruling class altogether are naive whats needed is the strategic formation of a new elite devoted to a prepostmodern conservatism and aligned with the interest of the many Their topdown efforts to form a new governing philosophy ethos and class could transform our broken regime from one that serves only the socalled meritocrats

Drawing on the oldest lessons of the western tradition but recognizing the changed conditions that arise in liberal modernity Deneen offers a roadmap for these changes offering hope for progress after progress and liberty after liberalism