Michael Novak Crafted a Moral Defense of Democratic Capitalism

In 1960, at age 26, Michael Novak moved into a Manhattan apartment swarming with cockroaches. After 12 years of preparing for the Roman Catholic priesthood, he had abandoned that mission and would devote himself to writing—about exactly what, he wasn’t sure.

He realized, as he noted later, “there was no way to know how deep my talent ran.”

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