Today we present Colson Center President John Stonestreet’s interview with Patrick Daneen, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and author of the new book, “Why Liberalism Failed.”

Has the success of classical liberalism—the political vision of individual freedoms, natural rights, and limited government—sown the seeds of its own demise? Are the fissures we are seeing in Western society, the rise of radical individualism, the crumbling of local communities and institutions—even the family—inevitable results?