David Mills
Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue, of course. Two of Christopher Lasch’s books, predictable. Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America, well duh. But you may well be surprised at the other eight selections in Patrick Deneen’s list of twelve books on Christianity and politics he thinks you should read, if you’re interested in the subject. Deneen, once of Georgetown and now of Notre Dame, is a leader of what might be called the alternative Catholic politics movement: not traditionally welfare statist or free marketing but anti-liberal, decentralist and front porchy, generally communitarian, ecclesially-oriented, and a few other things that I can’t think of it right now.
The lecture in which he gave these recommendations will be up soon, the site promises.
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