Noted political philosopher Patrick Deneen made a case Thursday for the need for what he calls “the public order” to restore the institutions of civil society.

“Our young people need assistance from the public order, in order to make it easier for them to marry, to buy a house, to have children,” Deneen said in a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington. 

“It is tantamount to cruelty to claim that all that is needed is more individual liberty,” he noted.

The address by the professor of political science at Notre Dame was a capstone to the fifth National Conservative Conference in the United........

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