On Cultivating Liberty

Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak who has written on theology philosophy political economy and business theory. This book brings together many of Novak's crucial essays on moral ecology: the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of the free and virtuous society by examining the family welfare reform free markets self-government and the American founding. A series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures such as Jacques Maritain St. Thomas Aquinas and John Courtney Murray along with an autobiographical essay by Novak and an introduction by Brian C. Anderson complete <I>On Cultivating Liberty</I> an indispensable book for anyone concerned about the future of the democratic project as we enter the third millennium.