When they are lamenting the excesses of billionaires, anonymous commenters and pundits alike often do the math out loud. Surely, America’s 700,000 homeless could be housed for, say, $50,000

Dr. Michael Guillén is a world-class scientist and communicator. He holds a three-fold Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, astronomy, and mathematics. For years, he was an award

Tracey Rowland once quipped that, while natural law is proposed “as a kind of lingua franca for dialogue with non-believers,” given that most liberal theorists ignore it and many Protestants

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“The greatest thing a man can do, the thing that brings him closest to God, is to preserve the marvels that exist, given that he cannot create them.” —Simone Weil, Venice Saved (1943)

Born in Jonestown, Pennsylvania, in 1933, and dying 83 years later in Washington, D.C., the theologian Michael Novak lived a 20th-century life. The author of numerous books and countless

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