Among the Young “Postliberals”

The desire for “regime change” was evident at The Catholic University of America. Check out our profile in The American Conservative!

Thank you to all of our supporters and attendees who joined us for our hugely successful event, “Our Postliberal Future”, with Patrick Deneen last week! The American Postliberal was recently featured in The American Conservative in response to the event, with particular emphasis on the role of young conservatives in building our postliberal future.

While The American Postliberal is still a young publication, we are in this fight for the long haul and our work is just getting started. We look forward to continuing our work within the “New Right” coalition and building a political order that is definitively conservative.

You can read an excerpt from the article, written by Stacey Kaliabakos, below and can read it in full here!

While Deneen’s discussion was indeed an enlightening crash course on postliberalism, what was arguably more interesting was how young the crowd gathered in CUA’s O'Connell Hall was. Students and young adults from all over D.C., not just CUA, came to hear what Deneen had to say about America’s postliberal future. It seemed that every person in the room had their hands raised to ask a question by the lecture’s end, and Deneen was mobbed like a pop star afterwards. 

But how popular is postliberalism really on the American right? Some conservatives are actively seeking to give the postliberal cause its own niche within the conservative movement in order to affect change. William Benson, a CUA student and editor-in-chief of the American Postliberal, told The American Conservative, “We started the American Postliberal to do just that. While we are still a young publication, we are in this fight for the long haul, and will continue to connect students across the country who will take these principles out of the classroom and into the halls of government.”