Michael Novak’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism is a curiously neglected work these days. While it was published in 1982 and has much that is specific to the debates of that era, the underling argument is curiously relevant to a contemporary debate about the nature of a Good Society. How important was the book in its day? The Dean of Studies of the History of American Conservatism, George Nash, listed it as one of the 12 most influential books of the 1970s and 1980s. Once upon a time, it was … [Read more...] about Rebuilding the Moral-Cultural Order
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