Michael Novak was a prominent Catholic philosopher, theologian, and author known for his writings on capitalism, religion, and democratic governance. He served as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for decades and was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1994. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics ranging from faith and morality to political philosophy and papal affairs.
A movement is growing among atheists to demand honesty about their own intellectual convictions. Sooner or later, one by one, some face the fact that the deepest secular ideals are rooted in the soil of Jewish and Christian conceptions, nowhere else. Honesty commands some of them to state openly…
Recently THE WEEKLY STANDARD published Irwin Stelzer's truly brilliant account of a literary luncheon arranged by President Bush to honor Andrew Roberts's History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, a thick, heavy book that picks up the skein begun by Winston Churchill with his long…
If I were an Islamist, a terrorist, a sworn foe of democracy, here is what I think I would have learned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is what I would write down in my hard-earned manual of instruction.
Sarge
THE NICENE CREED, recited by the world's more than two billion Christians every Sunday, declares that Jesus Christ "suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried." More than anything else, these ten words are the theme of "The Passion," Mel Gibson's new movie. Although not…
The Mystery of Capital
No single man is more responsible for the Fourth of July than John Adams. He knew full well the glory that would attach to the author of the Declaration of Independence, and there is a sense in which he spent his entire life preparing for and coveting that glory. But in the summer of 1776, Boston…
Over the years, I have read at least four biographies of the sixteenth-century politician, scholar, lawyer, writer, diplomat, and saint, Sir Thomas More. But Peter Ackroyd's new biography, The Life of Thomas More, is the first that I wanted to start again as soon as I finished. It may be, quite…
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart