Patrick J. Deneen, Founding Director
Patrick J. Deneen is the inaugural holder of the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair of Hellenic Studies in the Department of Government and is the Founding Director of the Tocqueville Forum. He is the author of two books - The Odyssey of Political Theory and Democratic Faith - and numerous articles and reviews. He has written on figures as various as Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Vico, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Orestes Brownson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, John Dewey, G.K. Chesterton, Reinhold Niebuhr, Christopher Lasch, Wendell Berry, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and Wilson Carey McWilliams. His work has appeared in academic journals and journals of opinion, including Political Theory, Perspectives on Political Science, Polis, Modern Language Studies, Social Research, Commonweal, Society, First Things, The Weekly Standard, The Hedgehog Review, The Dallas Morning News and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is currently at work on two book projects: "Another America: The Alternative Tradition in American Political Thought" and "The Idea of Division of Labor in the History of Western Political Thought." CV"The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage."
- Alexis de Tocqueville