February 22, 2002

Books

On Two Wings

On Two WingsHumble Faith and Common Sense at the American FoundingBy Michael NovakEncounter Books, $23.95, 239 pp.

Wilson Carey McWilliams

Michael Novak is an intellectual paladin, ingenious and learned, contentiously empyreal and remarkably prolific, with some twenty titles in print on American public life and Catholic social thought. Over the years, Novak has moved politically from the left-center (Choosing Our King) via populism (The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics) to somewhere on the right, especially as a c (...)


 

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