Lecture posted December 29, 2009 by Michael Novak
Social Justice: Not What You Think It Is
Abstract: For its proponents, "social justice" is usually undefined. Originally a Catholic term, first used about 1840 for a new kind of virtue (or habit) necessary for post-agrarian societies, the term has been bent by secular "progressive" thinkers to mean uniform state distribution of society's advantages and disadvantages. Social justice is really the capacity to…
Lecture posted May 16, 2007 by Michael Novak
Is Religious Freedom for Everyone?
Delivered April 24, 2007
DR. KIM R.
HOLMES: It is an honor to be here with all of you this morning
to introduce today's special guest and speaker, who will
deliver the third of the Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lectures.
These lectures
are part of a series that we kicked off last year, the purpose of
which was to bring greater clarity and attention to the…
First Principles Series Report posted November 6, 2006 by Michael Novak
Faith and the American Founding: Illustrating Religion's Influence
How long are we going to keep this experiment, this America? We are "testing whether this nation can long endure," Lincoln said at Gettysburg. We're still testing. Is America a meteor that blazed across the heavens and is now exhausted? Or rather is our present moral fog a transient time of trial, those hours cold and dark before the ramparts' new gleaming? Are we near…