Michael Novak, 1933-2017

Michael Novak, 1933-2017

I received the sad news that Michael Novak died Thursday. Novak was an outstanding scholar and the author of numerous books, among them The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and Business as a Calling:Work and the Examined Life. He was also a kind, thoughtful person and...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Vocation

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Vocation

From a sermon preached by Ralph Waldo Emerson at the Second Church, Boston, October 21, 1832: How many men now regard their business as so much interruption, as so much injury to their religious life? Their religious character is something separate from their daily...