In an aged response to Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Michael Novak discusses how the powerful cultural influence Catholicism has had throughout the world is…

In The Experience of Nothingness, Michael Novak has two objectives

In Choosing Presidents, Novak uses the election of an American president as a means to dissect the symbols of our national life and politics, exposing many as distorted perceptions of…

An eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session of Vatican II in 1964, interweaving pageantry, politics and theology. Novak applauds the purposes of Pope John XXIII and his successor…

Written before he became an eminent figure in the Church, Michael Novak’s first novel, now with an introduction by Ralph McInerny, is an intriguing story about a young man preparing…

This book reviews the long history of the corporation and examines the central role of business and economic growth in the strengthening of civil society and democracy.

Reviews democracy’s theoretical and historical bases and analzes these aspects of British politics and government which reflect or preclude truly democratic principles and practices.

A response to the Catholic Bishops’ Pastoral on the U.S. economy, this book presents a lay point of view on Catholic social thought and the economy.