Beliefnet Admin: November 2008 Archives

Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She also is a recipient of 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. Ms. Mac Donald is the author of Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans and The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society, and the co-author of The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and the New York Times.

Theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.  He is the 1994 recipient of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

He graduated from Stonehill College (B.A., Philosophy and English) and the Gregorian University (B.A. Theology).  He continued theological studies at Catholic University and then at Harvard, where he received an M.A. in 1966 in History and the Philosophy of Religion.  Mr. Novak has written 26 influential books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society.  His writings have appeared in every major Western language, and in Bengali, Korean and Japanese.  His masterpiece, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, was published underground in Poland in 1984, and after 1989 in Czechoslovakia, Germany, China, Hungary, Bangladesh, Korea, and many times in Latin America.  His latest book is  No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers.