Post Tagged with: "Michael Novak"

Can Mises Be Baptized?

Can Mises Be Baptized?

Money flows like water for these people and is used in an attempt to baptize Mises. Still, there is one scholar who was absolute in his opposition to such a notion, who declared, over and over again, the fundamental opposition between the Austrian School and any genuine understanding of Christianity. That scholar was Ludwig von Mises.

The Neoconservative Response Part Two

The Neoconservative Response Part Two

According to Novak…[S]ince capitalism is necessary for political liberty and liberty necessary for capitalism, the role of the Church must be, a priori, to support capitalism.

The Neoconservative Response Part One

The Neoconservative Response Part One

The neoconservatives have tapped a strain in Catholicism that has been present in one form or another since the Enlightenment, namely the attempt to reconcile the Church to Enlightenment thought, a movement that is sometimes called “modernism.”

The Politics of Ingratitude

The Politics of Ingratitude

Here is the great secret of my generation: What our parents gave us as a gift we have received as an entitlement. No one is grateful for an entitlement. Indeed, everyone is resentful that it is not larger. Worse, we are resentful of everybody else’s entitlements because they compete with our own.

What Does Centesimus Annus Really Teach?

What Does Centesimus Annus Really Teach?

Does Centesimus Annus really endorse the ‘free’ market? Thomas Storck demonstrates how Pope John Paul II’s encyclical not only fails to endorse laissez-faire but how the document is fundamentally in accord with traditional social doctrine.

An Interview With Thomas Storck

An Interview With Thomas Storck

We are honored for the opportunity to interview author and distributist, Thomas Storck. Mr. Storck has written articles in many prestigious publications. He is the author of The Catholic Milieu, Foundations of a Catholic Political Order, and is on the Editorial Board of the Chesterton Review.