In Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is, Michael Novak and Paul Adams seek to clarify the true meaning of social justice and to rescue it from its ideological captors. 

By: Michael Novak, Paul Adams and Elizabeth Shaw

Three in One introduces the reader to Novak's portrait of democratic capitalism.

By: Michael Novak; edited by Edward Younkins

This book offers the consensus of a philosophically diverse group of scholars and former government administrators on how to reduce welfare dependency.

By: Michael Novak

Writing as a philosopher, not as a social scientist, the author takes a radically different approach to the study of criminality, asking not 'what are the causes of crime?' but 'what are the causes of virtue?' Novak concentrates on what builds character and why there is a serious lack of character in our culture and society today.

By: Michael Novak

Michael Novak's work is challenging. We often disagree sharply in out interpretations and assessments of liberation theology, but he raises important issues which call for clarification and response.

By: Michael Novak

Increasingly, the religious leaders of the world are addressing problems of political economy, expressing concern about the poor. But will their efforts actually help the poor? Or harm them? Much depends upon what kind of institutions are constructed, that is, upon realism and practicality.

By: Michael Novak

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.

By: Michael Novak and Michael Joyce

“Moral Clarity” is an analysis of the arguments for and against nuclear armament.

By: Michael Novak

On September 10, 1897, in the hamlet of Lattimer mines, Pennsylvania, an armed posse took aim and fired into a crowd of oncoming mine workers, who were marching in their corner of the coal-mining region to call their fellow miners out on strike. 

By: Michael Novak

Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you different from others?" 

By: Michael Novak

Perhaps one of the most consistently innovative popular liberal Catholic writers, Novak collaborated with his wife, artist-sculptor Karen Laub-Novak, in this series of explosive pensées concerning "the reliable elements of life."

By: Michael Novak

Illustrations by: Karen Laub-Novak