PanThe New RepublicThe theme throughout the book is that things were simply better before liberalism reared its ugly head ... Particularly frustrating here is Deneen’s praise for the Puritan leader John Winthrop ... Despite Deneen’s claims to be proposing a \"new\" regime, there is little in his work that offers a genuine departure—though its reminder that the Enlightenment was not so neutral as it seems is salutary enough.
