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Michael Novak at the American Enterprise Institute in 2003.
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Michael Novak
Died on February 17, 2017 at age 83
Mr. Novak was a Roman Catholic social philosopher who abandoned the liberal politics he espoused in the 1960s to make the theological and moral case for capitalism in a series of widely discussed books.
Notable Deaths 2017
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