Once, a number of years ago, I was privileged to spend a week in Valletta, the capital city of the Mediterranean island-republic of Malta, as part of a small group that included Michael Novak as we attempted dialogue on the theme of “just war theory” with a group of intellectuals from the Arab world. It didn’t go especially well, but fraternizing with such major thinkers as Michael Novak and Jean Bethke Elshtain, both now gone, was a great and unexpected opportunity for me. (Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons)
I was saddened, the other day, to learn of the death of the Catholic theologian and social thinker Michael Novak. Here are a couple of pieces on the legacy of a very important American thinker:
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