Remembering Michael Novak

William Inboden | Feb 21, 2017

Professor Inboden writes “I owe much of my own intellectual development to Michael. I first met him almost two decades ago when he graciously agreed to sponsor me for a dissertation fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute, where he labored faithfully for several decades. I once heard AEI’s former president Christopher DeMuth remark in reference to Michael that ‘hiring a theologian at a Washington think-tank is perhaps the best decision I ever made.’ Unorthodox though it may have been at the time, Michael’s tenure at AEI singularly elevated public policy discourse by reinserting moral and theological concepts into what otherwise can lapse into stale technocratic debates about efficiency and organization.”

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