Crises, Tidings & Revelations: Novak’s Welfare Reform
In light of our renewed public arguments concerning welfare reform, it is worthwhile to re-examine Michael Novak’s “The Crisis of the Welfare State” (Crisis, July/August 1993). This essay marked a significant development in Novak’s thought, a development arising from his encounter with the papal encyclical, Centesimus annus. Novak repeats his well-known critiques of the welfare … Read more